(15-12-2011, 12:37 PM)Peter Wrote:(15-12-2011, 07:02 AM)PJW Wrote: So yes I'll certainly "add it to the list". I think I'll find out early in the New Year whether my offer of a paper for Aspect 2012 has been accepted; if so it'll be in, if not I shall find some other way to highlight.
Peter
We offer to raise items at the exam review on behalf of people who cannot be there if people raise it here. Is there any merit in giving the exam committee sight of the issues so that they stand a better chance of encouraging suitable examiners to be there.
Definitely agree that there needs to be a means by which those who cannot get to London have a means of getting their question asked / point made. We offered to be the conduit and of course we'll honour that; I hope I didn't imply otherwise- perhaps it read too dissmissively unintentionally.
It is just that I am a little dubious of whether that is the best forum for this particular issue for the following reasons:
a) mod 1 results (I have heard consistent overall story from various different sources) imply attention will be correctly focussed there. I have been in contact with one of the relevant examiners and she has confirmed that they are planning some significant feedback session,
b) similarly if the rumours re mod 3 are true then that may also come in for more detailed feedback
c) mod 2 conversely seemed to have been done by most relatively easily.
d) the particular issue raised, which is very relevant to candidates from non-UK backgrounds, isn't one that affects those likely to be attending the event in London,
e) there is not nomally any mod 4 or 6 coverage; I think the numbers sitting could be a bit higher this year so may warrant.
Yes it probably is worth compiling a list of items that the students / candidates would like on the Agenda. Perhaps we do that early in the New Year by which time we will hopefully know some results; for the remainder of this year people will either be winding down for a long Christmas break or building up for a busy commissioning period and are unlikely to receptive either way.
PJW