Two new developments for the UTAS Blog. The first involves one of our more prolific commenters and the second is about a UTAS student who dared to have an opinion.

Firstly, we were asked to represent an ex-PhD student in an application to the Ombudsman (www.ombudsman.tas.gov.au). The ombudsman declined our request and indicated that the person concerned would "find a complaint form on my website". Not a particularly auspicious start. However, as usual we'll do our best. We've contacted the ex-student concerned and suggested that all documents submitted and received from the ombudsman be posted here. This would be in the interest of promoting a clear and transparent complaints process.

Secondly, we've received an email from a gifted third year student at UTAS. The complaint was detailed and included much backing evidence. According to the student UTAS basically refuses to deal with this issue. The UTAS Blog has not obtained permission yet to publish this students problems but we hope to bring you the whole report soon.