oh forgot to say single parent with 2 teenage sons and decided to have a career! Went back to skool.... ooooooooops spelling again! its not about academia the law is about commitment! its about time people male/female had commitment in this country decided law is not a way to get rich but a way to help
2008/11/29 siobhan blacklock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ooops sorry about the spelling "succeed" > > > > > 2008/11/29 siobhan blacklock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > hey.............. i read half or what u wrote then ................. >> got bored u could of said what u wanted to say in one paragraph .. >> BUT i agree with u >> >> i dont live near any cities so therefore i could not attend the >> classes.... >> i bought the books and studied at home >> if you are determined enough you will SUCEED! >> >> heading into PPC11 >> >> >> >> >> 2008/11/29 J Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> >>> > I thought everyone had left Griffith for Independent Colleges? >>> > Certainly all the good lecturers are gone >>> > >>> > my thoughts exactly! and Griffith are still claiming prizewinners from >>> > years ago... very cynical when the lecturers who taught those students >>> > have left >>> >>> I'm coming back into the FE1 "thing" after a year in the wilderness >>> working in a NGO and masters...not looking forward to it, enrolled in >>> Griffith this time around. >>> >>> Now my point: I just can't believe this prize-winner stuff! I have >>> either worked with or had class with 3 prize winners and going to a >>> particular college didn't get them anything! They were first class >>> honours degree graduates! They went to Griffith because they were >>> just that studying type...I would put money on it that one girl in >>> particular, finishing top 5 in class, getting 1st in LL.M etc didn't >>> win a prize because one the "good lecturers" (which I think refers to >>> P. Burke, V. Corbett, S. Dowling) taught her. >>> >>> Other thing is, I suppose (like most law graduates) I'd think I'd have >>> a decent sense of the "whos who" in legal academia etc, and when you >>> contrast the independent lecturers (all save Stephen Dowling, who is >>> well known in practice) with Griffith, the latter seems incomparable. >>> The only other one (aside from Dowling by reason of his book) I knew >>> in Independent from reputation was Mark O'Riordan as he has a book on >>> landlord and tenant legislation that was on a reading list on my LLM. >>> This is on the verge of sounding really snotty, but you don't see >>> papers in the DULJ / Jurist etc from those in Independent etc. >>> >>> I've been piecing all this "independent / griffith" stuff together >>> from different places, but it seems like the "all the lecturers" left >>> was old news last year....and they were replaced and (at least on >>> legal academic rep standards) the replacements are, on paper, >>> better. I can put it this way...I went to Griffith when P. Burke was >>> in charge (as far as I know, I just really went to classes and did >>> homework). In that session (summer 07) I got absolutely no homework >>> back, got nothing by way of help from the office. And I'm coming >>> across all these posts about how "griffith fell apart since someone >>> left and took all the lecturers"?????? I just don't see it.... >>> >>> A colleague who went in Summer 08 for the last exams told me it had >>> changed, and since I failed 4 in summer 07 (I took 8), I had a credit >>> in GCD, and went back on the basis of the discount. All fine as far >>> as I can see. Just like Laurs says...getting stuff back within the >>> week...etc...don't need to bother going into class when its raining, >>> lectures are put online on the same night etc. >>> >>> Anyway...I haven't gone to Independent...but like a true legal nerd, >>> I'm sticking up for the Griffith lecturers because I think it is >>> bordering on ignorant to simply say none of them are "the good >>> lecturers".... >>> >>> >>> >>> >> > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "FE-1 Study Group" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.ie/group/FE-1-Study-Group?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
