Posts by Sharik 10 publicly visible posts • joined 25 Jan 2019
It's also unlikely that, once integrated, the system would actually improve the administration of student records. Every time I've seen a new system introduced a poor user interface has meant that it takes longer to perform normal tasks than it did with the old system. My particular favourite was the shiny new system that doubled the number of actions required to input each individual student assignment mark.
As someone who sits on a university ethics committee, it would not surprise me if the majority of the ethics committee involved didn't really understand the implications of the research project they were reviewing. It's likely to be made up of predominantly social science and humanities staff whose specialist areas are a long way from this. Two worlds and all that. Yet another reason why we need computing staff to engage willingly with the ethics process to the extent of actually joining the committees.
A university computing department I worked in had the same love of acronyms - SAD (Systems Analysis & Design) and DAD (Database Analysis & Design), for example. I was delighted to get a module on Critical & Real-time Application Programming past a validation board.
Well that would explain the rash of clearly phishing emails that 'came from' our VC a while ago asking us to 'click on the button below to arrange a meeting'. It caused a certain amount of speculation here in the computing department about whether it was central IT or another department that had cocked up.
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