Friday, July 17, 2009
Sheep
Finally, some free time at the end of the week and I have nothing to say. I had so many ideas, interesting ideas, to write last weekend and during the week but they’re all gone now. PFFT! And last night my Streamyx connection was down.
The first week of any semester has one major source of annoyance – students chasing after manual registration. Many of them are already well above the minimum workload while others are struggling to meet the minimum twelve credit hours. As usual, I put a notice outside my office that I am not entertaining requests for manual registration. Of course, it didn’t work. It never worked.
In the interest of students who for various reasons could not register enough courses before the semester begins, I’d suggest that the university limits pre-registration to only the twelve credit hours minimum workload. Then, registration during the first two days of the adjustment period at the beginning of the semester is restricted only to those students before it is opened to everybody from the third day onwards. This way perhaps we can do away completely with the manual registration exercise.
On another matter, I wonder why a student’s identity card/passport number, date of birth and nationality should be on the (partial) transcript when her full name and unique matriculation number should provide more than enough information to establish her identity.
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hahaha....pity for you sir being chase by students including me.....i think it's the nature for students not to 'understand' the note even though they understand what you said....hehehe
ReplyDeleteStudents should be free to take how much credit hour that they can. I missed out on the first semester Dean's List due to the 12-hour credit limit.
ReplyDeleteI propose the 12-credit hour limit during pre-registration and the first two days of adjustment period only, so everybody has the opportunity to register the minimum class-load. After that we can open all the sections to everybody to go nuts and register as many courses as they want. A huge part of the problem necessitating manual registration is that some students could not register enough courses because the classes are full – filled by students with 18, 21 credit hours. If they cannot register enough courses, say with only 9 credit hours, they’ll be forced to miss the semester.
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