Two Kingston University lecturers have been caught urging students to give their university a good report in the controversial National Student Survey.
Psychology lecturers Fiona Barlow-Brown and Fred Vallee-Tourangeau were recorded making comments that their degrees would be poor unless the university did well.
The recording was posted on Imperial University's Live! student news site and a Kingston University protest site.
The Higher Education Funding Council say they are aware of the incident and was taking it very seriously. A spokesman told The Times “If evidence of this is formally brought to us we may either request an explanation or require an investigation to be carried out."
If you are a Kingston student or member of staff, how have you found the university?
Wednesday, 14 May 2008
Kingston University in National Student Survey controversy
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I went to Kingston uni first as an undergraduate and then as a PhD student. This behaviour is very typical of the staff mentioned, particualry Fiona. Fiona is engaged to the Head of Psychology and thinks she can get away with everything as a result. When I was working as a memebr of staff whilst doing my PhD this was the kind of thing she would ask us to do.
There is so much favouritism at this uni and many staff are unhappy.
Fiona once told me to give a student a low mark because she kept complaining. She should be sacked for this but because of her fiance being so high up in the uni it probably won't happen
Thanks for your comment Emma.
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