A student enrolls in a master's degree. By the middle of October he/she hasn't received yet any information about the classes schedule. He/She is both a student and an invited independent researcher in the Department of the college to which the master's degree belongs. The student asks for information at the students secretariat and discovers that no one sent him/ her an email with information concerning the master's degree beginning of the classes, timetable and classrooms in a timely manner. The student has paid his/ her fees. All the other students were informed before the classes began. Is this student entitled to reinstatement of the missed classes?
Maybe. It should depend on the timings involved. If the classes involved had a "last date to add or enroll", I'd say yes if the student discovered the problem before that date and asked to be reinstated. "No" if the student didn't discover the problem or didn't ask to be reinstated until after that date. A graduate student has some responsibility to know what is happening and to be be pro-active if something is amiss.
Yes. It would be unfair not to reinstate such classes to the student. After all, s/he was not in the known.
Maybe. It should depend on the timings involved. If the classes involved had a "last date to add or enroll", I'd say yes if the student discovered the problem before that date and asked to be reinstated. "No" if the student didn't discover the problem or didn't ask to be reinstated until after that date. A graduate student has some responsibility to know what is happening and to be be pro-active if something is amiss.
we have another way of information, at the day of enrollment we give the timetable to the students and also paste on Student notice board where every student can get information and changing if any. in our school we don't have any relaxation / reinstatement, expect teacher itself relax that student. and i agree with @Milo Schield A graduate student has some responsibility to know what is happening and to be be pro-active if something is a miss.
Thank you for your contributions. Dickson Adom, I agree with you. The missed classes should be reinstated. It is unfair.
Milo Schield and Tahir Iqbal, you are also right a student "has some responsibility to know what is happening", specially in this case: He/ She is both a student and an independent researcher, that was invited to work on one project of the department. This was the case. It was the student that went to the students secretariat.
By the way, when the student enrolls in this course he/she also enrolls in the classes of its subjects: some are compulsory, others optional. The missed classes were from a compulsory subject.
I would say that the student is entitled to an apology, a reimbursement of the fees, and automatic acceptance for the next round of this course. The student could even sue for loss of opportunity costs. It is too late to join the current class, unless it is a self-study course. All the given lectures surely cannot be repeated solely for the student at little cost or effort?
Also, the secretariat should be appropriately dealt with, and procedures tightened up.
The student is entitled to reimbursement but it does not happen practically in Africa. The best he/she can get is the delayed classes
Ian Kennedy you are right, it was already too late to join the class. In this master the subjects were organized in sequential modules.
I agree with you all. The classes should have been reinstated and the student should have received some kind of compensation.
But unfortunately, this wasn't the case. The student who was also a researcher working for the department got nothing. The classes were not reinstated, no reimbursement was received, nor an apology. The student had no notes from the classes and no one cared. The student managed to pass the subject. In this particular case the student was also a parent of a child who was 1 year old.
I am glad that in spite of the obstacles, the student was able to triumph. Please congratulate the student.
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