The UB Mess

Monitor Editor | Monday August 25, 2014 17:02

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.

 In the court papers, the UB boss Thabo Fako is not fairing well, he is being accused of  failure to manage UB. We can only hope that these are not a manifestations of more serious problems at the University.

 

Kudos To BIHL Trust’s Schools Programs

Recently the Botswana Insurance Holdings Trust (BIHL) announced they have spent about P600 000 refurbishing eight primary schools and equipping them with libraries in an effort to contribute towards improving standard seven results. This effort by the BIHL Trust deserves commendation indeed.

It is an example of what other corporate players in Botswana can do to give back to the society from which they continue to reap business profits. We can only hope that the eight schools which benefited from this initiative  will validate these efforts by  producing academic results befitting the newly acquired learning tools. Some of these being; multi-media technology, while in some schools, classrooms have been refurbished- carpeted, fitted with new chairs and tables, and new books. We hope the adopt-a-school initiative by the Education Hub, bears fruit and interests more and more corporate players in investing in our education.