finding it difficult to get students to participate, due to other commitments in the program, almost like if it is not for marks they won't be bothered. this is the point i am trying to make that the program leaders and level leaders are not stressing enough or are not aware of the policy that concerns WILL there is so much documentation and monitoring that needs to happen. The idea of just getting students involved with NGO(SL and Will ) projects are so much deeper, students need to be prepared emotionally for what they may find and be given some kind of life line and a monitoring system, after all they are still re-presenting the university and if they find themselves in a compromising position outside of the university , it is still our responsibility. Students are battling to find a placement and has reply-ed on email mostly, i advise that they need to call and talk for them selves,most of them could get one place but nothing is confirmed.....
thinking of finding a placement or a job is what got me into this research, i feel so strongly that if people and students in particularly are assisted in finding work it helps with so many things that this country deals with, unemployment, poverty and so on. but having work a dignified job adds to a persons self worth and allows him to access basic needs, food , clothing and housing and ability to safe for something. When i think of my first job, how little i knew about the work and how little i knew about people and what they become forced to provide for their families. The social skills needed, the technical innovation to figure things out, the ability to ask, the risk in doing something wrong. The often brutal treatment which i still at times endure in my work place today. I think about the skills and knowledge that got me through those things, many say that i have lost all of that, in my search to be a better me. The fight, the bite the determination, i feel i have gone soft in many ways. I take abuse and comments i would never have taken before. The "gang" mentality to never back down and always in attack mode has nearly left me completely, now. But with out that skills at the time im am sure i could not have survived in the work place at all. So i feel for those students in search of work and students who will be finding a job, it is not easy. It is not like teachers and lectures make it out to be, at best 5 students find work that one can use as an example the rest struggle and in most cases its not about talent or portfolio's often just "luck" . so says one of the students interviewed last year. Well, i dont believe in luck, but i get that these students today are going to be creative in find and creating work. Till late dudes.....
finding it difficult to get students to participate, due to other commitments in the program, almost like if it is not for marks they won't be bothered. this is the point i am trying to make that the program leaders and level leaders are not stressing enough or are not aware of the policy that concerns WILL there is so much documentation and monitoring that needs to happen. The idea of just getting students involved with NGO(SL and Will ) projects are so much deeper, students need to be prepared emotionally for what they may find and be given some kind of life line and a monitoring system, after all they are still re-presenting the university and if they find themselves in a compromising position outside of the university , it is still our responsibility. Students are battling to find a placement and has reply-ed on email mostly, i advise that they need to call and talk for them selves,most of them could get one place but nothing is confirmed.....
ReplyDeletethinking of finding a placement or a job is what got me into this research, i feel so strongly that if people and students in particularly are assisted in finding work it helps with so many things that this country deals with, unemployment, poverty and so on. but having work a dignified job adds to a persons self worth and allows him to access basic needs, food , clothing and housing and ability to safe for something.
ReplyDeleteWhen i think of my first job, how little i knew about the work and how little i knew about people and what they become forced to provide for their families. The social skills needed, the technical innovation to figure things out, the ability to ask, the risk in doing something wrong. The often brutal treatment which i still at times endure in my work place today. I think about the skills and knowledge that got me through those things, many say that i have lost all of that, in my search to be a better me. The fight, the bite the determination, i feel i have gone soft in many ways. I take abuse and comments i would never have taken before. The "gang" mentality to never back down and always in attack mode has nearly left me completely, now. But with out that skills at the time im am sure i could not have survived in the work place at all. So i feel for those students in search of work and students who will be finding a job, it is not easy. It is not like teachers and lectures make it out to be, at best 5 students find work that one can use as an example the rest struggle and in most cases its not about talent or portfolio's often just "luck" . so says one of the students interviewed last year. Well, i dont believe in luck, but i get that these students today are going to be creative in find and creating work. Till late dudes.....