UG - a mere ‘cowboy’ institution?

UG – a mere ‘cowboy’ institution?

Oct 06, 2009 Letters

Dear Editor,
The University of Guyana (UG) needs to get its act together. The administration and the lecturers seem to be a problem within their own educational institution, and so the University cannot function to its true capacity.
I heard that Professor Lawrence Carrington is UG’s interim Vice-Chancellor. I understand that he is credible enough to make change happen at UG. If he is so credible, then why are the same problems within the University still recurring?
Every single day, we continue to hear the laments of students about their grades not being submitted on time. Do lecturers have a deadline for the submission of grades? Or is the Examination Division of the University not functioning effectively? Who are we to blame? Many second-year students still have not received grades from the last semester, and so cannot register at this time; although classes started on October 5, 2009. Professor Carrington needs to look into these small issues, because they can have great implications for students, such as, problems to graduate with the correct GPA or to graduate at all.
Another problem prospective and present students complain about is UG’s new Website, which is “supposed” to make registration easier and hassle-free for students.
However, this is not the case. Many students complain that they are unable to register for their programmes, and so I would think that the “functioning website” has some serious kinks which need ironing out. The staff within UG keeps forgetting that the University’s purpose is to serve the students, and so these students deserve a proper functioning registration system. The administration should look into this matter and immediately address it for the sake of the students.
Also, why does any problem that is student-related take so long to be processed and addressed, whether it is the review of a grade, or the change of a course, etc.? These issues take forever to be completed, which has great implications for the students passing grade. UG is presently functioning on an old bureaucratic system that needs to be modernized, because we are no longer living in the past, things have changed and time is important these days.
And those students who come to waste time at the University should be immediately dealt with. UG is not a place to waste time, and instead be taken seriously by the many students who would prefer to lime on the tarmac.
The students, the administration, and the lecturers are shortchanging UG, and should this continue, then it will become a mere ‘cowboy’ institution, and this would certainly be despicable.
Professor Carrington needs to urgently address these matters since the future of Guyana is at stake.
Malcom. Alexander

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