The Undercover Lecturer

The undercover FE lecturer.

[The Undercover Lecturer @DrFurtherEd]

@WestCollScot No you're not. You couldn't care less. The current students won't complete their qualifications because you won't support your staff and protect the sector.

[Charlie Montgomery @CharlieMont13]

Meanwhile, in real Scotland. Ongoing cuts to courses/places/jobs/resources. HE/FE Minister @GraemeDeyMSP wants to attract students & academic staff to a sector that's being decimated & staff get no cost of living uplift for years. Is there a Parliamentary award for gaslighting?

[Lynn Blair 📚 🌻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @verbisan]

And just in case there was any doubt - I'm not putting my results in. Pay me.

@EISFela
@EISFELA_WCS
@GraemeDeyMSP
@JennyGilruth

[The Undercover Lecturer @DrFurtherEd]

Can I fit in a little bit about "sustainability" into my lesson?
When my job, and that of every FE lecturer, is under threat?
When my personal sustainability is under sustained attack from inept management?
Why no. No.
I don't think I'll be wasting a single fuck on that. 🤔

[The Undercover Lecturer @DrFurtherEd]

@CarmensStory @Lecturer_Picket @helloitskirsty @Eis It's a sad indicator of people's selfishness and inability to think of others.

[The Undercover Lecturer @DrFurtherEd]

You bunch of selfish, pathetic pricks. You couldn't be bothered to walk to a fucking post box. You've thrown 400 jobs under the bus & left our negotiators toothless. The students have done more to help than you. Fuxake. Don't you dare complain when you're made redundant.
#eisfela

[The Undercover Lecturer @DrFurtherEd]

@StudentActionFE It is.
You have been remarkable. Thank you.
It's the gutless, lazy wonders who make up half the teaching staff who have let you down.

[The Undercover Lecturer @DrFurtherEd]

@EddieHughe59189 Because people are lazy wankers Eddie, and assume other people will vote.
'Scuse the French, but I'm really angry that people can't stand up for others. Those poor sods at City and some folk can't use a crayon & walk to a post box.

[The Undercover Lecturer @DrFurtherEd]

And don't expect the union to fight your corner next year. You've told the employers that you're a doormat, that they can do what they like and you'll accept the scrapings off their floor. You couldn't cut your cloth for a month or two to ensure security? Or are you just thick?

[The Undercover Lecturer @DrFurtherEd]

@Sandraneeswax So ashamed of my inert colleagues.

[The Undercover Lecturer @DrFurtherEd]

@Sandraneeswax Yes. We didn't make the 50 % turn out. Fucking pathetic.

[The Undercover Lecturer @DrFurtherEd]

@EddieHughe59189 @theSNP The behaviour is definitely poor parenting, but the prizes for all and the necessity to 'get the students through' - that's funding and policy. Standards have been drastically lowered.

[The Undercover Lecturer @DrFurtherEd]

Anyone else noticing a real decline in student behaviour? Rude kids, bad attitudes, no manners, zero resilience, no attention span, learned helplessness.
No one has ever expected anything of them.
Prizes for all and this is the consequence - under @theSNP
#DeyNothing

[The Undercover Lecturer @DrFurtherEd]

I wouldn't worry much about College Employers Scotland's latest lies, damned lies and statistics.
Have you seen their followers number?
We're the only people reading their tweets. 😉
Just ignore them and they'll go away.

[College Employers Scotland @CollEmployScot]

Our full and final pay offer would mean college lecturers at the start of the pay scale would continue to enjoy salaries among the highest in the Scottish public sector:

[Student Action @StudentActionFE]

The plot thickens 🫠🧵
Parents told yesterday that “AMCOL’s decision” was that they wouldn’t be able to take over the nursery until summer 2024 so it would have to close from December until then. So who makes the decisions at AMCOL you might wonder? Well… 🤔👇🏼

[Secret life of a College Lecturer @life_lecturer]

@DrFurtherEd @francescurran99 @CofGCollege @CogcEis My collleagues and I have managed without any real form of managerial support since term commenced -aside from timetabling (which was issued days before teaching started and was a shambles).They can’t even get that right. College leaders and middle management needs an overhaul

[The Undercover Lecturer @DrFurtherEd]

@francescurran99 @CofGCollege @CogcEis Let's remind management that 'extra curricular activities' means marking. Hours of unpaid time put in already. Take away the management and the students wouldn't notice a difference - and the staff would be happier.

[Frances Curran @francescurran99]

Still on strike. ✊ 100s of staff being scored to see which 100 get made redundant ⁦@CofGCollege⁩ - totally botched process.
Nicola has been served with redundancy. She has 4 young children including triplets.
Unfair dismissal claim in the post! ⁦@CogcEis⁩

[The Undercover Lecturer @DrFurtherEd]

Computers that don't work.
Ancient promethians with no remote controls.
Internet connections that drop out.
Bleak libraries with barely any books.
Cold classrooms and no heating.
Manky furniture in student areas.
Management "what can YOU do to help student retention?".