scrapping of GCU Student Webmail

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"Please get it right. It's not the IT department who don't want to provide an email service it is the executives continued policy of underfunding IT.."

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"Student webmail is an invaluable tool for disseminating information to individual or select students undertaking modules that are either run totally or supported on Blackboard. Scrapping it will mean having to find another means of doing this."

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"If they are removing the system to replace it with the proposed new system as was indicated by C&IT during the student/staff consulting groups then fine, otherwise it's a rediculous idea to remove such a valued system in this day and age!"

"It beggars belief that, yet again, the Executive is intending to place additional barriers to communication between staff and students and among students of the university."

"For most of students far from home, a webmail service is the often the inly way to communicate with their family."

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"Keep the email or invest in a new system. How can a 21st century university go back to pen and paper? Forward, not back!"

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"It is a fundametal way of communicating with lecturers. students have the right to be given the most support with their studies as possible and student-teacher communcation is the key to all support for students. scrapping the system will only reduce this"

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"The system isn't perfect at the best of times but the next logical step is to upgrade. Implament a system that can deal with the volume of traffic it's getting, don't withdraw such a valuable service."

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"We`re a full time university with a part time attitude???"

"The system, to now, has been a farce! Either you can't log in or it takes forever - all extremely annoying if you are waiting to hear from Tutors, library renewals (more than once I have had to pay fines because of the pathetic email system) or prospectiv"