On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 06:47, Paul Bagyenda wrote:

>   Somehow students are leaving the project til the last month. I am not 
> sure why this is. Perhaps the project should be turned into a course 
> unit in its own right, so that students can spend time over the 
> semester. (This is what my old uni did and it worked well).
> But I've found that the propensity to do nada among students is a bit 
> too high to be explained just by the lack of time. True some students 
> do actually spend time, but often the projects are just not compelling 
> enough.  The other issues (of skewed grading scales) can be worked out, 
> but generally the level of inspiration is lacking. Whose to blame? Not 
> sure quite yet.
> 
Ofcourse this simply implies one of two things:
1)Either ALL students (we :-)) are "Daft and slow" OR
2)There MUST be a HUGE bug in the academic system at Makerere that needs
an urgent fix.


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