Lately there’s been much unhappiness among NUS students over a proposed amendment to a policy of allowing students to choose whether to declare certain modules they take on an S/U basis, meaning that the student will be graded on a pass/fail basis rather than letter grade. This effectively means that the S/U grade will not affect a student’s Culmulative Average Point (CAP).
Previously, students have to declare whatever modules they wish to take on an S/U basis by the 7th week of each semester. This year however, the NUS undergraduate studies board came up with a new policy – new students (matriculating this year) will be able to declare their S/U options after exam results have been released, while existing students are excluded from this privilege.
The introduction of this new policy immediately caused an uproar among senior students, many questioning the rationale behind implementing such a policy. The most pertinent question was – why were senior students excluded from the new policy? This concern is not unfounded, because new students often take the same modules as their seniors and it would be unfair if they were allowed to choose to have their letter grades ignored at the end of the semester, compared to their senior counterparts who would have to declare earlier and thus be taking a risk on the declaration.
In the initial annoucement released by the school, no reasons were given as to why seniors were excluded from the new policy. Subsequently, the students’ union started an online survey and forum for students to voice their views on this matter. From the hundreds of messages posted on the forum denouncing the new policy, it was quite apparent that NUS’s management had implemented the policy without considering students’ opinions. This is very insensitive and inappropriate, but unfortunately, this is the way that NUS’s policies usually work – for example, the policy that exam papers cannot be reviewed by students (except for tallying of marks).
I have heard much from my friends who went to overseas universities that at those institutions, student opinions are taken seriously, and students are given much more respect than here in NUS. For example in a certain university (maybe in many of them, I don’t know), post-exam review sessions are held by lecturers to allow students to learn from their mistakes as well as for them to talk to the lecturers if they feel they deserved higher marks. Here in NUS, exam results are strictly non-negotiatable, and we never know where we done well/badly in… so we don’t really learn anything from exams.
From time to time, the news also carries reports on how at some university, students’ protests or unhappiness over tuition fee increments eventually lead to the universities’ managements backing down. Not in NUS though.
Anyway, back to the S/U policy incident. It appears that NUSSU compiled students’ opinions over this policy and tabled them to the school management, and the latest update says that the new policy will now be extended to the entire student body (hooray!) and senior students will also be able to find out how they were graded for those modules they had previously declared as S/U.
I’m glad things have turned out positively for us NUS students. I hope this will set an example to NUS management in future when they consider implementing policies that will affect students, to seek students’ opinions first. This is very basic respect (when we are actually paying fees to the school, shouldn’t we be treated as customers?), and as an educational institution; particularly as a “world-class” one, NUS management should potray themselves as a positive example of good corporate governance. Speaking of which, although the matter has already been resolved now, I still like to point out that the proposed new S/U policy favouring new students did not seem to go well with NUS’s policy of non-discrimination anyway.
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Looking from outside, it seems to be similar to the way how our government do things. Of course, NUS students are lucky to be heard and be counted. But, I hope that citizens can also pressure our government to be REALLY sensitive to our feelings.
Again, it is about RESPECT. Can we have that from our governement?
For more information about the furore over the S/U policy in NUS: A “Storm” Is Brewing In NUS
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stop begging for respect from NUS lah, they don’t even care about research standards. Look at the rubbish ‘research’ dumped out every year! If that is not even good, who cares about teaching standards, and by extension your welfare neh?
This is PAP’s Singapore. You are supposed to get a paper and fucked off to the local industry. Who cares what standard you want?
This brought back bad memories of questioning the staff the rational behind withholding of exam papers after the results are released. Let say there is a subject offered at two levels. Isn’t it better to be able to review your lower-level paper so that you can be better prepared for the subsequent high level one?
Thank god for this new policy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Nothing seems to be easier than seeing someone whom you can help but not helping.
I suggest we start giving it a try. Give love to the ones that need it.
God will appreciate it.
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