The University have recently decided to remove funding for a graphpad PRISM license for personal use by undergraduate students. This has removed an essential tool for Life Sciences Students, the main route for analysing data and producing accurate statistics, in particular these are invaluable to 3rd year projects. At $10,000 for 100 licensing codes the relative cost for bulk subscription is a drop in the water compared to the course fees of the student body. Please sign this petition to try and get the university to fund licenses for students to use PRISM on their own devices.
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October 5, 2016
Reaching this point confirms that I am not the only one struggling to finish my project without these essential tools. It has been an exhausting uphill battle but seeing this level of momentum proves that we deserve better support from the university.
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There are aren't enough computers available in the libraries/computer rooms for everyone! This is ridiculous considering prism is required for all the lab reports and most importantly third year dissertation project worth 50% of our degrees.
Doing a data dissertation I require and need prism software which was core to our 2nd year of studies to be able to complete this project to the best of my ability
Prism is an essential piece of software for our final year projects.
Prism is such an important tool that was paramount for second year. It would be invaluable for our third year projects and other labs we will do this year. Please reconsider getting the license back for personal use of the students.
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The University have recently decided to remove funding for a graphpad PRISM license for personal use by undergraduate students. This has removed an essential tool for Life Sciences Students, the main route for analysing data and producing accurate statistics, in particular these are invaluable to 3rd year projects. At $10,000 for 100 licensing codes the relative cost for bulk subscription is a drop in the water compared to the course fees of the student body. Please sign this petition to try and get the university to fund licenses for students to use PRISM on their own devices.
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October 5, 2016
Reaching this point confirms that I am not the only one struggling to finish my project without these essential tools. It has been an exhausting uphill battle but seeing this level of momentum proves that we deserve better support from the university.
5 Comments
We have been trained in the use of prism since coming to university and it is what we are all comfortable using. We need to have access to it on our personal computers to ensure we can produce our best 3rd year projects, as a lot of the writing up will be over Easter when we are home! Having to be trained to use anything else, or being restricted to only being able to analyse data inside the university would seriously hinder me and all my peers.
There are aren't enough computers available in the libraries/computer rooms for everyone! This is ridiculous considering prism is required for all the lab reports and most importantly third year dissertation project worth 50% of our degrees.
Doing a data dissertation I require and need prism software which was core to our 2nd year of studies to be able to complete this project to the best of my ability
Prism is an essential piece of software for our final year projects.
Prism is such an important tool that was paramount for second year. It would be invaluable for our third year projects and other labs we will do this year. Please reconsider getting the license back for personal use of the students.
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We have been trained in the use of prism since coming to university and it is what we are all comfortable using. We need to have access to it on our personal computers to ensure we can produce our best 3rd year projects, as a lot of the writing up will be over Easter when we are home! Having to be trained to use anything else, or being restricted to only being able to analyse data inside the university would seriously hinder me and all my peers.