I am a deferred 3rd year student at unisa's city east campus and whilst I am sure of the exact nature of this incidence I myself have experienced a range of issues myself during my studies at this university including:
* no contact AT ALL with facilitator during three week placement in 2nd year in a regional SA location
* The same facilitator in question above finally appearing during the next sememster's placement in another regional location only to discover, said individual was a) a lecturer at whyalla campus, b) an after hours coordinator at local hospital and c) also our facilitator creating a major issue of conflict of interest when several of us raised serious concerns regarding our preceptors level's of performance (or lack their of)
* A mid semseter exam consisting of 40 mutiple choice questions of which at least half contained gramatical and/ or clinical errors. minimal ackowledgement of errors at all little alone readjustment of marks.
* recieveing an email from a course coordinator not so subtly suggesting we avoid giving negative feedback in the end of sememster cei's (course evaluation instrument) as this reflect negativley on the university!
* portion of student quota routinley being without placements until the 11th hour due to lack of forward planning.
* Many, many more issues.............
I wish I could say the exam "stuff up" was a one off but can't................maybe now they have been 'named and shamed' through the media they finally get their act together.......stranger things have happened!
Morgan
