Misconduct allegations

THIS is an open letter to the vice-chancellor of the University Of Papua New Guinea.
My child is now sitting in the house because of one of the so-called lecturer has misplaced or hasn’t kept records of assessment in his class.
This child and a few others have now missed out on registration this year due to this.
Any professional knows the importance of keeping records and lecturers should know better.
After every test, examination, assignment and or group activity, results are recorded diligently against their names.
In this day and age, once entered into a computer system, the results can be accessed online from anywhere in UPNG itself and in this country.
This person has a reputation for misplacing results, according to former students.
The university administration has continued to turn a blind eye to this continued unprofessional conduct. Why would a lecturer continue to misplace assessment results?
Parents and guardians spend a lot of money to get their children educated.
Many would like to see the results of how their children’s performance.
In some instances, students do not attend another class if their results were from a course they took was not graded.
Unless all results are shown, classes may begin.
In such situations, when classes start, they are a few weeks late and lessons have to be crammed in a very short period of time.
This is totally unacceptable.
In a couple of cases, students who didn’t sit for an exam end up getting graded for it and with pretty good grade too.
In another case, a student from a different faculty got graded for a course he did not take.
The student was petty surprised to have been included on the list.
How can a university allow discrepancies continue without the administration not knowing?
The University of Papua New Guinea was once known to be a world class learning institution.
With the kind of sloppy and unprofessional moral and ethical conduct on the part so called ‘lecturers’ it is now a laughing stock.
Students and parents are continually being failed by lecturers’, condoned by the administration because they can’t investigate and reprimand these crook lecturers.
Adding salt to injury, junior officers in the university continue to be abrasive against students who want answers to their queries.
These officers are paid by students who pay their tuition fees.
They forget their place and get away with it because the administration is made up of incompetent and ‘out of gas’ windbags.
The Minister for Higher Education Science Research and Technology should make an all-out effort to bring back our premier university back to its original status.

Andia Lomba
Port Moresby