The UB Mess

This past week, the Midweek Sun ran a report about the messy climate at the University of Botswana (UB) where students are unable to register for courses using the newly introduced online system that is also used to apply for accommodation on campus.

According to this report, the system’s errors are hampering scores of students’ oportunity to smoothly progress into the next academic year. All this simply because, in some instances, human error has resulted in wrong information about some students being fed into the system’s data. While it is always welcome to be techno savy and appearing to be moving with the times,  this should be a hassle free process that does not inconvenience or frustrate hundreds of  users- some of whom are being told by the system that they cannot proceed because they have poor marks while, in fact, those students had performed very well in their studies.

Such an innovation should naturally be enhancing service provision and  adding value to the institute instead if knocking down  the UB’s reputation. While we are still watching with keen interest how the UB will resolve this techno mess, somewhere in this edition we learn of  the head of the institute facing massive revolt by staff who have taken him to court.

Editor's Comment
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