FIX THE CAMPUS! KOFORIDUA TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY; STUDENTS AGITATED OVER FAULTY MICROPHONES, SPEAKERS, PROJECTORS, CLOSURE OF ENTRANCE AND POOR SANITATION IN WASHROOMS.

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!

JESSIE ASANTE 

SRC PRESIDENT HOPEFUL 21'