Well, with everyone asking about all these schools shut, i am praying that Hallam Uni is shut too!

Im at collegiate cresent and have a lecture 4-6 tonight, hopefully as everything else comes to a standstill when the snow comes, uni's might too!

Dont fancy trecking up there and then getting snowed in-just my luck!!!

It's only a lecture, just take it off anyway.

Originally posted by pdrnsf
Well, with everyone asking about all these schools shut, i am praying that Hallam Uni is shut too!

Im at collegiate cresent and have a lecture 4-6 tonight, hopefully as everything else comes to a standstill when the snow comes, uni's might too!

Dont fancy trecking up there and then getting snowed in-just my luck!!!

Walk instead of taking the car, then you won't get snowed in.

I doubt its shut. If the staff don't turn up because of the snow they have to take it off as annual leave.

Originally posted by thomsongirl
I doubt its shut. If the staff don't turn up because of the snow they have to take it off as annual leave.

Seriously? Seems a tad unfair...

Originally posted by Skatiechik
Seriously? Seems a tad unfair...

If they gave everyone free leave for snow, who would turn in to work when they actually could?

K x

I used to work there. If you didn't turn up because of snow then you had to take it off as annual leave. If you did make the effort to turn up, and even be late in the process then they wouldn't have to make the time up as you have made the effort to get there. Mind you this was for admin staff, lecturers have different employment t&c's so it could be different for them.

Don't be such a wimp. 4-6 is nothing and unless there's an influx of polar bears there's no reason not to be there. Some of us will be stuck at work all day regardless of the weather and I haven't even seen a penguin.

Originally posted by Kristian
If they gave everyone free leave for snow, who would turn in to work when they actually could?

K x

But what about those who are legitimate and are snowed on. Not exactly fair.

I'm at Hallam and have been at uni all morning. But there is some talk of them cancelling our lectures this afternoon so I'd just suggest checking Blackboard regularly.

well thanks for that Lucy, most helpful. Checked blackboard and tommorows is cancelled, but no mention of tonight. Thanks again. x

Originally posted by pdrnsf
well thanks for that Lucy, most helpful. Checked blackboard and tommorows is cancelled, but no mention of tonight. Thanks again. x

I work at sheffield uni and if you are not admin or a lecturer you can just not turn up and it does not count as holiday....

I was supposed to go to Collegiate for 12-1. I called up the lecturer who said it was still on if enough people turned up.
I called Mainline asking about the 95's at Dyke Vale Road, cos they'd been going in all directions and turning up whenever, and I was told they were running, but were not running on time at all. That would have made me late, and I didn't fancy getting stranded in town if it got worse, because knowing the 95s, they would have been one of the first to go.
A friend of mine has gone in cos she walked there from Hunters Bar, so I'll copy her notes, thankfully.

What kind of annoys me, is when people who live in town don't show up to uni because they've been out all night and can't make the effort to get up, or the same for the snow, when it takes me much longer to get there. I know it's nothing to do with me, but it's not fair.... I'll shut up now...

Can find this message on blackboard about hallam being shut.

Originally posted by Gilly
Can find this message on blackboard about hallam being shut.
I think it'll depend in the course...

Gemma86:

People miss lectures all the time - in general it is not how many lectures you go to but how much work you do at the end of term. Granted they help a little - but I think you would get far more benefit reading about the subject yourself for an hour than attending a lecture.

That's a nice thing to say about us lecturers! So if our contact hours with the students contribute nothing, we might as well shut up shop and let them simply pass their degrees only through their own reading and (I suppose) cribbing it all of the Net?

Seriously, we don't actually require attendance at lectures but we DO at workshops, seminars etc and we monitor that. So far as I am aware every lecturer takes his/her job seriously and would not dream of not coming or or cancelling sessions unless there was some serious reason such as illness. Try asking the universities in the USA if they shut down when they get snow ten times as deep as this little flurry we've had. (I know--I've taught American students).

Originally posted by Micky
Gemma86:

People miss lectures all the time - in general it is not how many lectures you go to but how much work you do at the end of term. Granted they help a little - but I think you would get far more benefit reading about the subject yourself for an hour than attending a lecture.

rubbish. most subject area's are huge. If you don't go to the lectures you'll have no ideas which bits the lecturer has covered and thus what will be on the exams.

Originally posted by Skatiechik
But what about those who are legitimate and are snowed on. Not exactly fair.

But why should the employer bear the brunt? It's not their fault.

K x

Originally posted by Kristian
But why should the employer bear the brunt? It's not their fault.

K x

I am sure the employer will feel guilty tho, when the person dies travelling on roads that aren't fit to travel on, all in the aid of getting to work.