THE University of Guyana (UG) -both campuses — have done fancy orientation and opening ceremonies for the new semester and just imagine, their new applicants do not even have their registrations and profiles approved. What a shame. Moreover, final-year students exam results are not even posted online.

As a requirement for grades to be posted online, students are mandated all of a sudden to participate in the pointless exercise of completing the (useless) lecturer assessment form sheet. I completed mine and there are still no grades for my final-year exams semester 2. Something’s wrong there indeed. It’s a shame.

When I wanted to do a change of registration at Turkeyen in June, I had to actually visit the campus and spent nearly two hours doing that activity. I was walking from building to building. I had to walk to the registry to tell them about my change; walk over to buy a chit from the library to use the internet to log in to my application; walk to another building to use the internet; walk back to the registry with the print-out; walk to the bursary to pay the fee for change of registration, etc.

To date, the change of registration has not been reflected on my profile– more than three months later! Are you hearing me Mr Vice Chancellor?

Three students who are supposed to begin their degree programme in Social Studies this semester at the Berbice Campus were told– on the first day of the new semester nonetheless– that they have to go to Turkeyen to complete their degree because there are only three of them– that can’t make up a class size at UG’s Berbice Campus. Isn’t that another shame?

Why wait until then to let these students know that they have to travel to Georgetown to complete their degree? What will they do now? Is this fair to them? Just what is going on and who will represent these students? Not that waste-time student body, is it?

Can you imagine students and applicants resorting to UG Facebook to ask questions and enquire about applications? People do not have anywhere else to go to take their problems and questions. The UG numbers listed on their websites for answering and dealing with questions and queries:

222-6006 / 222-5423 / 222-5122 / 222-2487 / 222-5499 / 222-3602 / 222-2111 / 222-4930 / 222-5408 are all dead ends. Isn’t that another shame? At Berbice Campus, some of the people there are not helpful too. When you call for something, it’s like they behave as if they are doing you a favour. I think the Turkeyen politics has been playing out for a good time now at UGBC.
But then again why am I complaining. This is what you get for paying $127,000 per year to UG.