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Delay in marking exam papers “incomprehensible” – says Vice Chancellor

Sep 12, 2013 News

Vice Chancellor of the University of Guyana, Professor Jacob Opadeyi, is perturbed by the fact that lecturers continued to “foot-drag” on the marking of examination papers.  He regarded the state of affairs as “incomprehensible” when he hosted a press conference at the University’s Education Lecture Theatre on Tuesday.
“We cannot understand why a lecturer will not be able to mark a script within two months…up to now we have not received all the marks for the second semester and the classes have started, and students want their grades to move on to other programmes or to move unto other things,” said Professor Opadeyi.
He said that because there was a delay in the availability of Biology grades some students were told that they were unable to enter the Medicine Programme. According to the Vice Chancellor, a number of students were desirous of entering the latter mentioned programme but were unable to do so because of the “foot-dragging” nature of some lecturers in terms of the marking of exam papers.
The students, according to the Vice Chancellor, were found to have good performances in Biology thus their intended move to migrate to the new programme.
“I had to step in and ask the students to sit down and create space for those persons who did well…This is an unjust action and we should not be treating our students, who have worked very hard to get into the programme of choice like this because of delay in submitting marks.”
During an earlier interview, the Vice Chancellor said that he was proud that almost 95 per cent of all results were available but had envisioned that all 100 per cent would have been released by the start of the new academic year.
He had however mentioned that there are yet some among the staff of the University who still appeared bent on embracing “the old mode of ‘I don’t have to meet deadlines’…But I’ll tell you this, I do believe I have the support of all my colleagues.”
He said that many of the daunting issues that have been highlighted in the newspapers are in fact being used as stepping stones at the University. “It has really helped us because I am reading the newspaper and I am cutting out these (newspaper) clippings about UG not doing this and that, and we are confronting these issues…”
Recently the University completed a special audit into the financial affairs of the institution but according to the Vice Chancellor this will certainly not be the end to the action being taken.
He said that the University is already working on some other initiatives which will include a management audit to ascertain whether the University is following its Admissions and Human Resources Regulations properly.
“We have to see if we are doing what we are suppose to do or if all of our regulations are just ignored and we are just doing what we want to as in the case of the Bursary,” said Professor Opadeyi.
He said that the University is currently reviewing its Sexual Harassment Policy and Regulations. In fact he disclosed that on Monday a staff member was sent home because of sexual harassment issues. “I am sending a signal that this Vice Chancellor will not tolerate any form of Sexual Harassment at this University,” said the Vice Chancellor.

 

 

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