Almost every day the campus is a ground for a throng of people. These people, regardless of their multifarious ends, are one way or the other affiliated by the actions and inactions of the academic board.
In arrowed terms, the academic board is central to the running of the school. Academic is more or less the umbilical cord that straps every Tom, Dick and Harry on campus.
This understood brews much worry when one comes to uncover that academic has been beleaguered by some irregularities of late. That academic, now like the proverbial three-leg table, wobbles as a result of inadequacies that are uncalled for. And just in case you need an interpretative picture, the school – you, the management and Press Club – wobbles in return.
With news making the round that there would be a meeting on Friday that will see the academic board meets with relevant stakeholders to deliberate pressing issues in the school, it becomes pertinent to remind the board with detailed analysis the need to make the pressing issues in the school history with alacrity.
Let’s take-off from that which is unarguably most crucial in respect to the board’s jurisdiction: the long-awaited result of most departments in the school. For the umpteenth time, this would be written on. The truth is that whatever the challenges the school is facing in respect to result-release, the protraction holds no form of good whatsoever.
It is an aberration to have the results of two semesters pending and a new semester in a new session already half-way with students unregistered for courses for the semester. If there is one thing that yokes the students with the school, then that is easy as it comes: results. And the moment the school fails to provide that, being in school makes no sense.
Secondly, let’s delve into another long-drawn-out issue: the Students Union Election. To think that the last time MAPOLY had a SU election was two years ago. This does not bode well for the school in congruence to the welfare of its students. The bridge to reaching them and having them reach you is oiled with the availability of the Students’ Union. It is no gain on the part of one-side. It is a win-win body for a school authority and a students’ populace that know their onions well enough. What is preposterous is not having it at all.
Thirdly, the school fees brouhaha in its two-pronged splinters: 60:40 payment removal and the threat to close the portal. Informed, this nestles on the shoulders of the school management. It is exclusively their prerogative to wield what they deem best in respect to school fees payment. But in whatever lens you peer at it, this has a bearing in the academics. Hence, the supplication for there to be a reconsideration of the increasingly incongenial legislation on school fees payment – one that has become a thorn in the flesh of most students.
In categorical terms, we need status quo to return. The school had been running smoothly on what was obtainable in the past, although there might have been some forces that compelled the management to enact the new legislation, but stringent it is from the basis of suddenness and basis of economic dwindle the country is facing across board.
With that said, ending with this: students have been complaining of some courses that are outdated in their syllabus. Some are decrying the elective courses that were made compulsory for them to offer. We live in a fast-paced world and more so, we extol the fact that our academic staff are also catching up with the trend of development as fractionally seen in their upgrade of academic qualifications. If we have such translated to the students viz-a-viz courses requiring upgrade or courses that should be injected and ejected in context of our evolving world, then the motto of the school as “technology for development” would have been more accentuated.
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