Students of Koforidua Technical University have recently expressed concerns about the poor state of learning materials and have registered displeasure in how they struggle to use some facilities in the school. This is as a result of frustration after constantly channelling their grievances through the SRC. In a recent Open Forum, the President of the council told the representatives that matters regarding learning materials in the class rooms have been advocated for and hence we should expect actions soon. School will reopen in some weeks to come but nothing has been heard. Are we going to commence a new semester with this existing problems? Below are deliberations of some persisting problems.
To begin with, one of the existing problems in the
class room is projectors with poor lumens. Projectors are used to visually
assist lectures with graphical representation of the lesson being taught, and
diagrams from slides are being projected and explained without students viewing
from notes and phones for active participation and concentration. The reason
for installation of these projectors is now tilted because of how faulty they
are. In as much as some are faulty, other lecture rooms do not have at all example;
FBMS Theatre and some lecture halls at CCB.
Again, faulty Public Address System makes audibility
difficult in the lecture halls, students population keeps increasing, some
class size after sub-division is around 150 and above, this shows clearly that
the larger halls must have PA’s with good conditions and audible enough to give
smooth sail in academics.
In addition, the number of mono-desks serving
students at various lecture halls are lesser than the allocated number of
students to occupy a class at a go. This is creating uncomfortable situations
where students have to carry desks from one class to another. Maintenance of
the mono-desks is not appropriate and have soon cause rapid reduction of desks
in our class rooms.
Lastly, we have chanced on stench and unsavoury
scenes in our washrooms on countless occasions. Poor sanitation in our
washrooms is so unbearable; we can’t continue to have another and more
semesters of stench, contracting of diseases and loss of appetite anymore. The
stress of perambulating looking for closets to attend to nature’s call must be
quenched.
In conclusion, I will like to state that soon school
will reopen, and students are going to rise to these same nightmares. This has
become more than a containable disease which needs proper care and attention.
All advocators, students, quality assurance, management and all other stake
holders are entreated to FIX THE CAMPUS!
