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