For me, what I’m talking about goes way beyond being late for lectures, bad lecturing etc. What I’m talking about is a lecturer who’s new to UCL and conceals matters such as the existence of Staff-Student Consultative Committees to students for fear that the truth about all his shenanigans be told to his superiors – this is literally one example of many that shows the corruption that exists at UCL.

UCL would rather choose to support such a lecturer than a whole group of students who send an anonymous letter to the Academic Dean because they’re so scared and intimidated by what will happen to them. We were right – we felt the real brunt of it and were ostracised and bullied by some UCL staff just for standing up for a decent education that we had paid thousands of pounds for.

For now, I really can’t say much more, except that the Public interest Disclosure Act had to be used to get the ball-rolling. The ball’s rolling right now but it’s going up a very long, steep hill.

I’ve been told by professors and other professionals that I should have just gone to the media. For now, I’m glad I’ve found the London Student to have some sort of “media voice”. Even when UCL’s own professors go up against UCL with backup from professors from Harvard, UCL really seems to act very defensively – imagine what it’s like as a student who’s still being taught at UCL – pretty scary stuff.

For me, going up against a giant like UCL has felt like an ant going up against an aarmory of aardvarks who’ve been starved for months – I feel they just want to hunt me down and hoover me out of existence so that I vanish and so do UCL’s problems. Anyway, let’s see what happens…

I’ve had plenty of lecturers who, whether due to repeated absence or just an appalling lecturing style and lack of clarity, have without doubt compromised the quality of teaching we receive. I say, chuck out the ones that aren’t doing their jobs right and keep the good ones. Isn’t that how it works in other employment sectors?