Submitted by Bajan Goddess (as a comment)
I think my principal spends too much time in his office. If he actually sat in a class room or spoke with students he would know that we are dissatisfied with the current system at Cave Hill. I am tired of poor administration – departments that do not liaise with each other and have the students running around like headless chickens trying to find out what the hell is going on but that is an aside.
You have persons leaving Cave Hill who on entering the work place cannot function because they were never taught how to apply practice to all that theory they were taught. You have people leaving Cave Hill with first class honours who are recruited by top companies and then are fired at the end of one yr, why?? The employers say that these people have no analytical skills, cannot think for themselves, do not know how to work with groups and are burnt out because they cannot handle the pace of every day work life. Is it any wonder that companies have told Cave Hill that they no longer want any first class honours students coming out of the institution?
There is lack of expression. Students would love to tell admin what they really feel but there is no forum given and if you try to take it, you have your petition ripped from notice boards or as of Monday, peeled from the door of the library. They tell you Speak Your Mind which comes in a form of a fixed questionnaire. now tell me how do you speak your mind just by ticking yes or no? Half of those questions were not even relevant. We students want more choice in programmes. You have over 250 students for e.g. graduating with a basic management degree, now tell me, what separates you from your fellow graduand? Nothing that I can see. School re-opens the last week of January and you have exams in April. Don’t forget they took away our semester break. You have no time to process the material. All you can do is regurgitate it for an exam just so you can get an A. Ask me a few months later what I did, I cant tell you but I know I got an A.
Why are there no internship programmes for students to put into practice what they learn during the yr? Why are there no forums given where students can interact with others and have intellectual discussion? All I see the guild do is put on fete after damn fete. Is that all Cave Hill students want? Give me a break. Why is the guild not held responsible to the students who elect them for the $20,000+ dollars that they receive from the students??
Sir Hilary needs to wake up and smell the stench at Cave Hill. We students have an online student system which the lecturers themselves cannot use so we students cannot get extra materials to help us. The library has now cut back its hours simply because it cannot pay its staff so we students must leave the library at 4:30pm on Saturdays and 2-8pm on Sundays. The library hardly has enough materials for the students to use either.
My principal needs to open his eyes to what Cave Hill has become. The new admin building is beautiful but students need to park their vehicles. we are tired of the LTs that leak when it rains so we cant have class. I am tired of seeing students with wheelchairs who cannot get into classrooms because there are no ramps and the doors are too small. I am tired of the blasted greasy, unhealthy food and a book shop which closes at 5pm on a Friday when classes end at 9.
Its amazing that the only beautiful thing on campus in this drought, was the cricket field which was lush and green while the rest of cave hill was cracked and dry.
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