PhD in Music Education. Teacher. soul - mellow pop singer/songwriter. i'm allergic to bananas and i've just released a single called ‘Like Anyone Would’
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Como Español, como ciudadano y como ing. de Caminos tengo una enorme indignación por lo ocurrido en Valencia y con la gestión criminal de los hechos. Vamos con datos, no con opiniones. Escucho que era imposible haberlo sabido, que no daba tiempo a avisar, etc. Vamos con datos 🧵
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The response to this thing is a case study in the ramifications of (a) govt & media’s incessant vilifying of internationals students (b) UKHE’s growing reliance on them w/out any plan for how to facilitate their study, the latter of which is has had several consequences. 1/🧵
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The crowdfunder page does read like the stuff of a public meltdown, but I’m not sure that that’s surprising, given the circumstances. UKHE treats intl students like cash cows but is abysmally bad at rendering the system legible to them. A lot of knowledge is taken for granted.
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Really baffled by all the people focusing on the student specifically and trying to poke holes in her story rather than getting angry about how the system is set up for this exact thing to play out. We shouldn’t this scenario to happen at all! To anyone for any reason!
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You aren’t owed a PhD because you spent money for it, but an honest supervision arrangement should be a minimum expectation for all PhD candidates. I saw way too many intl students kept in my program far past the point that it became clear their projects weren’t viable
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I cobbled together much of my funding through grants and scholarships (which are often reserved for UK/EEA students) but for a huge number of intl students self-funding via savings or loans is the only real option. The uni absolutely relies on this for its funding model
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And to be clear I don’t want to speculate about this student because I think this case is really just a symptom of a bigger problem - focusing on the details of her specific story lets us ignore the fact that none of this should have been able to happen in the first place
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They admit more students than they can reasonably support, keep them past the point of no return on their projects, increase tuition and cut funding opportunities - all to cash-grab. THAT is the real scandal! One student getting pissed is not the scandal!
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The only way this happens is if the uni exclusively sees you as a profit center for them. Which is a problem across the academic sector in the UK. I was on strike *every single year* of TAing because of how egregiously UK unis rip their faculty and students off
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And I’m gonna need American academics who have straight up zero clue how UK PhD funding dynamics work for international students to sit this one out
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Re: that whole Oxford situation, I also was an international student who did a PhD in the UK. If you make it to all the way to 4th year before finding out that your thesis isn’t viable, your supervisors have failed you, likely because the uni wanted to keep extracting £££
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I appreciate some of the questions raised by the public after @BBCNews piece. Since I believe this is a public interest matter, I have decided to share the supporting statement of @QueensCollegeOx for the appeals process. I hope this answers some of the questions.
After reading a bit of her account, it seems like we’re forgetting how lucrative international students are for British Academia. How she was baited and switched with her supervisors *and* how there was no problem with her scope allegedly until her CoS leading to her viva.
‘I paid 100k for a PhD’
Well, you didn’t. You paid 100k to be allowed supervision and research time to produce a work which, all being well, would then be examined for a doctorate.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy89…
4 successful women vs Martin Branning the catfish…
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