The Berbice campus is a terrible step-child of the Turkeyen campus

Nov 26, 2015 Letters

Dear Editor,
Berbice Campus is a beautiful campus, but there are many ills which have begun to make the campus unattractive for students. What the administration of the University does not realize is that students across groups share both negative and positive experiences. Most of the experiences that are now being shared make us realize that the quality of service given at the Berbice Campus is on a decline. The Berbice Campus, apparently, is not to be accommodated under the University administration’s umbrella of supposed Quality Assurance. One sweep across the campus revealed the following that characterize students’ experiences.
Only at the Berbice Campus are available lecturers awarded contracts to teach almost at the end of a semester or after the semester is completed. Only at the Berbice Campus are our first-year colleagues in the Division of Social Sciences taught five courses by one lecturer. Only at the Berbice Campus does the Dean ignore our colleagues’ request in the Division of Social Sciences for transparency with the grades allocated for several courses. When I saw no distinction for any Marketing student in my graduation booklet, I probed and learnt that the Marketing students continue to be the group most affected by the administration’s policy of ”one lecturer to teach five-first-year courses.” Only at the Berbice Campus our colleagues in the Division of Social Sciences who paid for a course to be completed in a fifteen-week semester completed the course in one week so that they could graduate and were happy to do so because they wanted to get out of the campus. Only at the Berbice Campus, our colleagues pay tuition fees for a part-time lecturer to distribute notes downloaded from the internet which they have to cram for tests.
Editor, is it only at the Berbice Campus that Quality Assurance has missed its mark? Or is it that the Berbice Campus is the terrible step child of Turkeyen? When I was a student at that campus, every issue which we brought to the attention of the Berbice Campus administration had to wait on the leisurely pace of Turkeyen. Our fees are no different from Turkeyen. Out of compassion for my unfortunate colleagues who are still on campus, I urge the administration to deal with the issues which the graduating class has left behind. To my colleagues, let your voices be heard. The Berbice Campus needs to do more for itself!
Garfeld Sammy
Class of 2015

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