UI lecturers not committed to teaching

UI lecturers not committed to teaching

From Kompas

My two sons are studying at the University of Indonesia (UI)
and I, too, have taken extension courses at UI before.

From our own experience studying at UI, I regret to have to
say that many UI lecturers are not committed to their teaching
profession. Many of them teach there for a variety of other
reasons. Some of them, for example, are multi-level marketing
agents and often neglect their duties as lecturers.

Our experience also shows that many lecturers are often absent
and usually ask the students to come on other days, forgetting
that the students also have tight schedules. Paper-writing
supervisors, for example, cannot find time for consultation and
are willing to guide only students writing about popular topics
that have been explored by earlier students.

The management of the university must collect input from UI
students so that they can clearly understand the problems that
the lecturers are faced with. In this way, they can get proper
information about what the lecturers need and pay them properly
so that there will be no more moonlighting among these lecturers.
The university must employ lecturers that can devote themselves
fully to teaching, reading, research and publishing. Money will
no longer be a big deal as long as the students are sure that
their lecturers are fully dedicated to their profession.
Professionally dedicated lecturers deserve to be properly paid.

R. HERIYANTO
Bekasi, West Java