Posted by alexandra_k on March 22, 2022, at 16:38:25
In reply to Re: shortage of mental health nurses, posted by alexandra_k on March 22, 2022, at 16:24:39
so they gave me a summer scholarship on the basis of reading a directed study that i wrote.
at the end of the summer scholarship i was told by my supervisor there that my work was 'as good as anything that had been done, here'.
he refused to write me a reference for my USA PhD applications. he said i should 'ask people at home who can rave about you'.
which is a dick / arsehole thing to do / say. refuse to write someone a reference.
when i said about applying back to the australian national university he said he would put in a good word for me with the people there, however.
i applied to the australian national university and i also applied to macquarie. i was informed by someone at the anu to look into a person who was presently at queensland and i did that and i emailed him and he encouraged me to apply to queensland. i said i had missed the deadline on that and he said it didn't matter -- i should put an application in anyway and he would ensure it was considered by the university.
i ended up with australian government funded scholarships for me to do a PhD at all three universities in australia.
queensland specifically stated they offered me an office space with a new computer.
i accepted the offer to australian national university.
i then learned that the guy was leaving queensland (a lot of the department was leaving) the department was having severe / serious problems and a lot of people were leaving. i was asked, by him, why i didn't accept the offer from queensland and if i wanted to say something about him leaving and that was why i didn't want to go there. i said i didn't know about any of that...
so the australian national university had the opportunity to assess me over a few months of summer scholarship to make an informed decision about whether or not to enrol me in a funded phd programme.
that wasn't the case for most of their other studnets, who were arriving sight unseen by the university. they didn't know how the other studnets would get on in that environment.
then, when i arrived, i was told that a particular person was the best fit for the topic that i wanted to work on (in philosophy the student comes up with the topic / project rather than how it is in science when people advertise for students to work on particular projects within their laboratory).
but that particular person wasn't arriving until 6 months in.
because he was half the year at victoria university wellington and half the year at the australian national university.
common or standard or typical or normal or usual or aspirational process or procedure for victoria univesrity wellington (indeed any of the nz universities) is to refuse to get students work to external examiners to cry cry cry cry cry about how garbage rubbish crap the studnets work is... how it will fail if the student insists that it goes out. how the money has run out. how the student must pay the university! the student must pay the university! the student must pay! teh student must pay!
so that the senior officials from teh univesrity can spend half their talk going on about how esteemed their colleagues are and so they can book expensive hotel rooms in exotic locations half way across the world.
and it isn't about the philosophy anymore. in fact philosophy is prevented and prohibited from occuring. because it is all about the money. money grubbity grub grub grubs.
so this ideology of not signing off on students work goes from wellington-wells to canberra.
it starts with there not being jobs for graduates. they graduate them... they give them post-docs. but then they cut them off. they don't give them 2 lots of post-docs. they don't give them permanent positions. instead the senior people need to have hundreds of thousands of dollars of research funding to ensure that philsoophy is not done. is not done by them is not done by anyone.
but now the stats are looking bad. graduates of the university aren't getting jobs!
so the solution is to go wellington-wells like refusing to sign the studnets off.
i mean.. if you are too busy or too lazy to help the student get the thesis in shape..
then get out of the f*ck*ng way then.
get the work to the externals with a note about how the supervisor (the person paid by the university to supervise the studnet) was too busy else too lazy else too busy holidaying and partying to properly supervise the studnet.
which is why the work is in the state it is in.
such that it relies on something along the lines of the kindness of strangers (external examiners) to stipulate what needs to be done to a timeframe to get it doen.
because the supervisor was too stupid / lazy / psychopathic to do his f*ck*ng job. the job for which he is paid.
he appears to be paid enough to do not just his job. but allllllllll the jobs.
there's a bunch of people with no job. and likely a bunch witih no degree. because he's a greedy greedy money grub for which he will go down in history
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