More than a hundred Auckland University of Technology (AUT) students have filed a complaint about a paper they claim has “unfair exam processes” and alleging some of the university’s staff members have “mocked” their distress. The students first lodged the complaint with AUT on April 9, with it signed by 131 students studying the paper Pharmacology for Professional Practice 701. The several students who spoke to the Herald did so anonymously because they feared their exam marks could be affected if they were named.
The paper is a compulsory part of several qualifications, including bachelors of science, advanced science and health science, with specialties such as nursing, midwifery, oral health, podiatry, physiotherapy and paramedicine. The complaint challenged the delivery, assessment and guidance offered in the course..