Re:My students have paid £9,000 and now they think they own me
by daxfohl on Friday December 18, 2015 @09:10AM
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You're describing a tutor, not a teacher. It's the equivalent of blaming the customer service rep when something their company made broke.
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Re:My students have paid £9,000 and now they think they own me
by AndrewKemendo on Friday December 18, 2015 @09:15AM
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You're describing a tutor, not a teacher.
I had the same thought, but what practically is the distinction? The only thing I can come up with is scope, but even then, there are plenty of tutors that teach a fairly wide range of a topic like a teacher would. I have seen plenty of Calculus II tutors but never a integration by parts tutor.
Re:My students have paid £9,000 and now they think they own me
by geofft on Friday December 18, 2015 @09:29AM
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Well, yes, if the CSRs treat the product as their own and tell people that their job is creating the product, sure we'll blame them!
The faster that university professors admit that degrees are not a product of the professors, they're a product of the administrators and accreditors and the social system that expects people to have degrees, the faster they'll get out of the way of blame.