As soon as I saw the banner proudly proclaiming that the faculty of Humanities and Education is celebrating its 50th anniversary and its theme for this grand occasion is “A hint of the past, A taste of the present and A glimpse of the future”, I immediately saw the irony of the situation. This is my fourth trip to this institution and my main gripe with this goodly institution since my first degree was that it is living in the far past and needed a push into the 21st century. So here is this banner pronouncing that they are giving a hint of the past... (Hello, a what?) Surely it might have been most appropriate to say “A Chunk of the past and the Reality of the present with a Maybe of the future” or better yet “We are living in the past, operating in the present and hoping to be in the future”
When this goodly institution can seriously take its head out of the past especially where assessments are concern (needed creative quality ways of assessing and not the same ole same ole) and move into the present then and only then it will stand proud in the future. As for now though, all I seem to hear from students in every faculty who are forced to attend (the financial perks are great and we can’t do anything else and we want our degrees) is “This is madness, too much work, I am tired already ...”
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