A few questions need to be asked here: one being what
constitutes as a student? The answer to this can be solved
as follows - a student is a person who studies at or is
affiliated to an academic institute. For convenience sake
you can classify a student as one with an NUS card. Part
time students are members of the NUS and therefore
constitute as students. There are no shades of gray with
this classification and so all students are eligible to
play in student tournaments.
"not sufficiently 'full time' a student" - this description
is (to be quite frank) a load of bollocks. A full time
course (such as psychology) could only have as little as 2
hours a week time allocated to study at an institute where
as a part time course (such as mechanical engineering)
could have as much as 9 hours a week - so which is
"sufficiently 'full time'" enough for student ultimate?
UWE as a university has over 24 000 students around 10 000
of which are part time. For the last 3 years UWE (ultimate
frisbee) have had part time students playing for us as if
we didn't we would be openly discriminating against them.
Never once have we been asked if we've got any part time
students playing for us. This is probably because we have
normally played against times with good spirit who care more
about enjoying the sport rather than beurocrasy. The South
West Student Qualifiers are run with good spirit so it
seems rather a shame that other student qualifiers are not
run to the same level as the South West.
Good luck Raj,
Stuart.
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