Report Number 1.
So what would I have done if
I had known what a sham HCT is? Well, I guess there are a few things.
For
instance, if I’d known how badly the teaching staff were overloaded with
courses and pointless committees, were expected to work free overtime, and
would never be consulted on a single matter concerning the teaching processes
and outcomes, I guess I would have stayed at home. If I’d been told that my teaching
and my students’ learning would suffer from large class sizes and a woefully
inexperienced local managers, I would have said: “Hey! But I’m a highly-qualified
faculty member with years of international experience! How can you guys be so
amateur and incompetent?” If I’d been able to foresee how the senior management
micro manage the college(s) and have a total lack of international experience
at the highest levels, I would have rolled my eyes in dismay and mumbled a
thousand curses under my breath. If I had been aware that way too many alumni had
been hired, that they lack the correct attitude and have absolutely no
experience in education or industry (or any working situation at all), I
probably would have wet my pants laughing at how anybody could have expected to
run a tertiary education system with such low caliber employees. Had I been
told that the vast majority of female students here have embedded prima-donna
attitudes, are accustomed to being clearly spoiled and extremely lazy, then I would
have said to myself: it must be HCT!
Caveat emptor:
I have not seen a single experienced international faculty member stay at this
HCT branch for more than a couple of years; they soon get burned out attempting
to give a high quality education to ungrateful
female students who cheat on a large scale and are always supported by their
‘cousins’ in the administration and management. Any self-respecting educator
should STAY AWAY from this frustrating maze of lies and contradictions.
My advice to those idiots who
call themselves ‘managers’ here, especially of the senior variety, is to learn
how treat the faculty with the same respect that you lavish
upon your precious darling students; you need to actually seek advice from the
internationally experienced instructors that you constantly try to belittle and
undermine. More importantly, put an end to the way that you bend over backwards
to appease the cheating students, and stop employing your useless alumni, who
have neither teaching nor professional experience, and display absolutely no
interest in performing their jobs well.
Report Number 2 is ... coming SOON!
