tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966286076093915365.post4297350173962447045..comments2024-03-27T14:48:34.772+03:00Comments on HCT Sucks!: HCT in RAK - part twoSuede Oasishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02932187288413488257noreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966286076093915365.post-7227086735011607602015-02-03T00:56:11.154+03:002015-02-03T00:56:11.154+03:00A TRADITIONAL HERBALIST & SPIRITUAL HEALER. A ...A TRADITIONAL HERBALIST & SPIRITUAL HEALER. A NATIVE DOCTOR WHO CAN GIVE YOU A SMILE AFTER USING HIS SPIRITUAL SERVICES & HERBAL MEDICINES.<br />CONTACT DR OGBEFUN FOR HELP VIA EMAIL drogbefunspelltemple@gmail.com Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17366492569474835978noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966286076093915365.post-13520124344260429032015-02-03T00:55:34.226+03:002015-02-03T00:55:34.226+03:00A TRADITIONAL HERBALIST & SPIRITUAL HEALER. A ...A TRADITIONAL HERBALIST & SPIRITUAL HEALER. A NATIVE DOCTOR WHO CAN GIVE YOU A SMILE AFTER USING HIS SPIRITUAL SERVICES & HERBAL MEDICINES.<br />CONTACT DR OGBEFUN FOR HELP VIA EMAIL drogbefunspelltemple@gmail.com Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17366492569474835978noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966286076093915365.post-22825952397170351272011-11-26T20:55:44.865+03:002011-11-26T20:55:44.865+03:00A better rumour is that they are planning to can t...A better rumour is that they are planning to can the director of Fujairah colleges and put Ali in his place. They are going through the motions of advertising the post of Director, CEO or President. What next as an HCT title? Master of the Known Universe? Fujaira would work out nicely for Ali as the RAK women's college is a no-go area for him so he could make a clean start. What a shame Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966286076093915365.post-19307049858310584852011-10-30T22:16:04.448+03:002011-10-30T22:16:04.448+03:00Rumour has it that now Ali has got his phd after s...Rumour has it that now Ali has got his phd after several failed attempts. That mean's he'll be the next director of hct rak. He got lots of help writing stuff but then he just couldn't explain what he'd written in front on an external examiner. Finally they found a sympathetic examiner and so he passed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966286076093915365.post-38866104358907172832011-10-03T23:22:26.185+03:002011-10-03T23:22:26.185+03:00So, where's Ali? I knew him well in my time t...So, where's Ali? I knew him well in my time there. Glad I'm gone.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966286076093915365.post-45934954779613888842011-09-29T21:28:31.015+03:002011-09-29T21:28:31.015+03:00Awesome if its true. Mean's somebody is beginn...Awesome if its true. Mean's somebody is beginning to pay attention to RAK out there in the wildnerness at last. Moulton's little empire, Moulton thinks running it according to his mad-king whims.<br /><br /> The toadies close to him, wining him, dining him, flattering him, whose life mission is to suck up to him no matter how mad he gets in his madness should begin to feel a twinge now. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966286076093915365.post-72767521600675763212011-09-29T20:24:01.143+03:002011-09-29T20:24:01.143+03:00Breaking RAK news. SMS top secret from Abu Dhabi t...Breaking RAK news. SMS top secret from Abu Dhabi that they’re booting the RAK Associate director out of the RAK colleges. <br /><br />Ali’s an Emirati kid who used to be a student at HCT and then grew too big for his own britches or wazir and he kinda fancied takeing over the place. <br /><br />The CLAW tried to show this local guy how to run a college but this proud Mansoori had no time for the Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966286076093915365.post-79884699042102565622011-08-31T22:03:28.048+03:002011-08-31T22:03:28.048+03:00You teachers are all so juvenile and need to grow...You teachers are all so juvenile and need to grow up. You are stuck in classrooms toiling away iwth nasty boring students doing the dull work of educating them because you do not have the intellectual brilliance of Chinn and the management skills of Moulton. I cannot believe that you were so juvie that you went onto a website and spent your time punching Dr Moulton in the face more than 20,000 Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966286076093915365.post-76179258440789359352011-08-29T01:18:49.056+03:002011-08-29T01:18:49.056+03:00I could not find anything on Google Scholar by the...I could not find anything on Google Scholar by the aforementioned Dr J Chinn. Or have I missed simething?Raja Karmanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966286076093915365.post-26328592160835777982011-08-28T22:51:08.258+03:002011-08-28T22:51:08.258+03:00So yeah, innyway, but, that’s how she connects her...So yeah, innyway, but, that’s how she connects her half baked ideas as she searches for her files and her responses. She has also used the pronoun I more times than any other presenter we have come across. How to account for this degree of muttering self reference as a presenter?<br />Could somebody please post her best publications in refereed journals here? We want to judge her against the Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966286076093915365.post-3760837040902940072011-08-27T22:41:30.236+03:002011-08-27T22:41:30.236+03:00Stand up and be fired by directors who stay 't...Stand up and be fired by directors who stay 'teachers my arse.' Teachers and students don't matter in HCT's prima donna wars. <br /><br />I too was at Chinn's shambolic performances. bob should have been cringing and embarrassed. he's too far gone for that. <br /><br />chinn, it must be said, came with a bundle of stuff related to special needs she had developed over her Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966286076093915365.post-85367880762090216322011-08-27T17:17:48.777+03:002011-08-27T17:17:48.777+03:00I can remember at ADWC I was told at very short no...I can remember at ADWC I was told at very short notice to bring my students to the Auditorium to be witness to some unbearably dull speaker from the UN. As I had student presentations booked for that period, I ignored it.<br /><br />Then, halfway through the presentations, some Dean of something or other popped her head round the door and asked why my students weren't in the Auditorium, as EnglishTeacher365https://www.blogger.com/profile/01375074264886483655noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966286076093915365.post-37259027886063222392011-08-26T20:44:34.470+03:002011-08-26T20:44:34.470+03:00She's one of Bob's former Phd students and...She's one of Bob's former Phd students and almost as mediocre as Bob himself.Now she's his good buddy. He rewards his buddies at HCT and UAE expense.<br /><br />She began as Bob always does by giving a stupid half baked anecdote about her Ghaza experience. This is establish their credentials in the sensitive Arab world. They started off in the deprived area. Now, they have the rightAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966286076093915365.post-84163313504381998842011-08-24T20:47:01.208+03:002011-08-24T20:47:01.208+03:00she's awfull.
and compulsorykinda of
butts on...she's awfull.<br />and compulsorykinda of <br />butts on seat to show <br />bobs waning authority in the collegesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966286076093915365.post-81683395944871859202011-08-24T18:50:20.437+03:002011-08-24T18:50:20.437+03:00thanks for your comment on its your college. make ...thanks for your comment on its your college. make your opinons known. yes, that's democracy in education so here's what I scibbled and thought.<br /><br /><br />So innyway, but yeah Dr Jenny Chinn is one of Bob’s old PhD students (as so many of us had suspected) "and so one of the few to call him Bob" at their awful university.<br /><br />Have a mediocre supervisor such as Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966286076093915365.post-59944927409549946932011-08-21T19:16:43.784+03:002011-08-21T19:16:43.784+03:00Bo'b's latest act of presummed croneyism i...Bo'b's latest act of presummed croneyism is to fly in a woman from the States called Cathy Chinn to do 2 days of stuff on special needs. What has Cathy published on special needs? How much Arabic does she speak? How many international conferences has she presented at? What does she know of Arabic learners? What research has she done on the learning difficulties of learners whose first Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966286076093915365.post-43804183898281287882011-08-11T10:25:31.299+03:002011-08-11T10:25:31.299+03:00"make a list of all those institutions and or..."make a list of all those institutions and organizations with whom HCT has signed MOUs, and established partnerships, and inform them of the Faculty and support staff view"<br /><br />The person who wrote this obviously doesn't understand anything about HCT's MOUs and deals with external institutions, or how it all really works.<br /><br />Firstly, there's literally a Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966286076093915365.post-44016891793760302852011-08-04T02:50:51.575+03:002011-08-04T02:50:51.575+03:00To Anonymous of August 4, 2011 1:35 AM:
You'...To Anonymous of August 4, 2011 1:35 AM: <br /><br />You've apparently sussed me out. For years, I’d noted how our young ones had come to believe that they were of a "privileged" class and were <i>due</i> a cost-free education.<br /><br />I disagreed with this in 2005 and I disagree now. We are, simply, separating the wheat from the chaff.<br /><br />Might I add, you're lucky to Tayeb Kamalihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07072833070698773305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966286076093915365.post-3538035305324078162011-08-04T01:35:49.518+03:002011-08-04T01:35:49.518+03:00In fact, the report states the following:
The cha...In fact, the report states the following:<br /><br /><i>The changes at HCT have been made with budgetary concerns in mind. The colleges have struggled for cash since 2005 and began overdraft borrowing in 2009.</i><br /><br />Interesting point, that is - that HCT has been short of cash since 2005. And when did Tayeb al-Kamali become Vice-chancellor of HCT? Well, in 2005!<br /><br />Some Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966286076093915365.post-14976304914670825722011-08-04T01:29:42.371+03:002011-08-04T01:29:42.371+03:00But the cash is getting tighter and tighter, accor...But the cash is getting tighter and tighter, according to this report in The National:<br /><br />http://www.thenational.ae/news/uae-news/education/fewer-places-for-students-at-federal-universities<br /><br />It reports that HCT's rsponse to having a 30% shortfall in its budget is to abolish the Diploma program!<br /><br />Way to go, TK!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966286076093915365.post-30221063198364735782011-08-02T00:54:23.525+03:002011-08-02T00:54:23.525+03:00Too right. King Kamali does not value 'boldnes...Too right. King Kamali does not value 'boldness' in his managers, preferring to place a great premium on conformity, compliance, and deference. Not to mention servility and sycophancy. <br /><br />Why do you think he always appoints 'damaged goods' to top positions? There's no other way he could keep control of them.<br /><br />And they certainly don't keep their 'Raja Karmanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966286076093915365.post-15420710090321386742011-07-31T19:15:53.993+03:002011-07-31T19:15:53.993+03:00Post HCT 'boldness' - there's a lot of...Post HCT 'boldness' - there's a lot of that about!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966286076093915365.post-3898105777831905402011-07-31T10:11:22.483+03:002011-07-31T10:11:22.483+03:00[As a policy-maker now in my post HCT life, I urge...[As a policy-maker now in my post HCT life, I urge you teachers who remain at HCT to take a bold step now...]<br /><br />Pardon the impudence, but what "bold" steps do you take as a "policy-maker" while employed with HCT?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966286076093915365.post-51136124879122925732011-07-31T06:58:28.389+03:002011-07-31T06:58:28.389+03:00Eat your porridge and SHUT UP YOU VILE PIECE OF SH...Eat your porridge and SHUT UP YOU VILE PIECE OF SHITE!Tayeb Kamalihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07072833070698773305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966286076093915365.post-31427383426748589772011-07-31T00:30:14.119+03:002011-07-31T00:30:14.119+03:00The long and short of it here is that although we ...The long and short of it here is that although we eventually worked the required number of days, as per contract, many of us STILL got ripped off when it came to getting the correct severance pay.<br /><br />Yeah, that's a real good way to treat your employees with many years of service. Real good indeed!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com