The university has agreed to include us in the degree title changes and I am completely overwhelmed by this result. This outcome is entirely down to the persistence of those who signed and kept pushing for fairness. I feel incredibly lucky to have had your support behind this effort.
May 26, 2014
Final year NUBS students to be included in changes to degree titles, scheduled for 2015
Final supporters
This petition calls for current final year Nottingham University Business School students to be included in the changes to degree titles, planned to take effect for 2015 graduates.
Recently an email has been sent to NUBS students outlining the plans for changes to the program titles. The details are quoted here:
"From September 2014, most of our degrees will be changing from BA to BSc. This will affect Finance, Accounting and Management, Industrial Economics (including with Insurance) and Management Studies. Our Management with Languages degrees will remain as BA degrees. In addition, the name of the Management Studies degree will change to Management and our Management Studies with languages degrees will change to Management with languages."
This email went on to explain various benefits of these changes to students:
"Science and Technology are perceived as more salient and relevant than Arts and Humanities, as evidenced in public policy, resource allocation, changing university structures and public discourse. Therefore, we have made the decision to change the names of our degrees accordingly to reflect this changing environment and to bring us more in line with key competitors."
However, despite outlining these advantages it has been decided that 3rd year students will not be included in this change. Final year students have put forward the following reasons why they should be included:
- The business school themselves have said that the degree will be worth more.
- The content of the course is not changing
- Those who are applying for graduate schemes that start in 2015 will be at a disadvantage to NUBS students that took the same course but graduated the following year.
- The business school has a responsibility to ensure competitiveness of its graduates.
- Final year students managed to get a higher NSS response rate
- Final year students came up with the suggestions for the change
- NUBS students have had to suffer the university drop in the league tables.
- Plans to make changes will have been discussed for some time, therefore to tell us after we have completed the NSS feedback, during exam time has been seen as an attempt to ensure we cannot express disappointment, or have time to appeal.
Those signing below feel that current final year students should be included in changes to degree titles, proposed for 2015
Updates
Reached 250 supporters
May 10, 2014
Reached 100 supporters
May 9, 2014
May 6, 2014
I am honestly overwhelmed by how many of you have joined this effort to reach our group of one hundred. It feels like we are on the verge of being taken seriously if we can just get this final push over the current hump. This momentum belongs entirely to the rest of you who chose to stand up for our graduation titles.
6 Comments
Everyone else gets the update except for us. I worked just as hard for my degree, I deserve the title too.
Ridiculous. We are doing the exact same work but getting a less relevant title? Sort it out.
Why should the class of 2015 be punished? Give us the BSc!
pretty standard for notts to mess things up like this. include us in the change.
Totally unfair. Uni says the change is for employability but then leaves us out right before we graduate.
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The university has agreed to include us in the degree title changes and I am completely overwhelmed by this result. This outcome is entirely down to the persistence of those who signed and kept pushing for fairness. I feel incredibly lucky to have had your support behind this effort.
May 26, 2014
Final year NUBS students to be included in changes to degree titles, scheduled for 2015
Final supporters
This petition calls for current final year Nottingham University Business School students to be included in the changes to degree titles, planned to take effect for 2015 graduates.
Recently an email has been sent to NUBS students outlining the plans for changes to the program titles. The details are quoted here:
"From September 2014, most of our degrees will be changing from BA to BSc. This will affect Finance, Accounting and Management, Industrial Economics (including with Insurance) and Management Studies. Our Management with Languages degrees will remain as BA degrees. In addition, the name of the Management Studies degree will change to Management and our Management Studies with languages degrees will change to Management with languages."
This email went on to explain various benefits of these changes to students:
"Science and Technology are perceived as more salient and relevant than Arts and Humanities, as evidenced in public policy, resource allocation, changing university structures and public discourse. Therefore, we have made the decision to change the names of our degrees accordingly to reflect this changing environment and to bring us more in line with key competitors."
However, despite outlining these advantages it has been decided that 3rd year students will not be included in this change. Final year students have put forward the following reasons why they should be included:
- The business school themselves have said that the degree will be worth more.
- The content of the course is not changing
- Those who are applying for graduate schemes that start in 2015 will be at a disadvantage to NUBS students that took the same course but graduated the following year.
- The business school has a responsibility to ensure competitiveness of its graduates.
- Final year students managed to get a higher NSS response rate
- Final year students came up with the suggestions for the change
- NUBS students have had to suffer the university drop in the league tables.
- Plans to make changes will have been discussed for some time, therefore to tell us after we have completed the NSS feedback, during exam time has been seen as an attempt to ensure we cannot express disappointment, or have time to appeal.
Those signing below feel that current final year students should be included in changes to degree titles, proposed for 2015
Updates
Reached 250 supporters
May 10, 2014
Reached 100 supporters
May 9, 2014
May 6, 2014
I am honestly overwhelmed by how many of you have joined this effort to reach our group of one hundred. It feels like we are on the verge of being taken seriously if we can just get this final push over the current hump. This momentum belongs entirely to the rest of you who chose to stand up for our graduation titles.
6 Comments
it makes no sense to exclude the final year. if the new title is better for our careers then we should all have it.
Everyone else gets the update except for us. I worked just as hard for my degree, I deserve the title too.
Ridiculous. We are doing the exact same work but getting a less relevant title? Sort it out.
Why should the class of 2015 be punished? Give us the BSc!
pretty standard for notts to mess things up like this. include us in the change.
Totally unfair. Uni says the change is for employability but then leaves us out right before we graduate.
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it makes no sense to exclude the final year. if the new title is better for our careers then we should all have it.