graduation day Unitech

It is a serious day for the University to show itself off to the rest of the nation. Coming to work I passed the noisy chants and drums of sing-sing groups - each of the provinces must be represented I assume to rejoice at the successes of their wontoks. One graduand had a tie tied for him by another because he couldn't do it himself. These are serious Engineering and other graduands who have to put on the Western male bird of dress for the occasion. I see that as with other graduations the style of wearing the hood reflects personality. There is the floppy look in which the hood drops over one shoulder so you can see your colours out of one eye without looking as pretentious as the style with drapes the hood over both shoulders. Then there is the superman look which I prefer which has it dangling down your back. I'll take notice to see if there are other styles.
Asde in our Externalising seminar at Agriculture in the light of the comments and perception that externalising was a pipe dream, I raised in the awareness session the fact of the obstacles - unwillingness and inability. My job as instructional designer is to provide training to overcome the inability in writing. But if someone is unwilling then leadership it seems to me might be needed to "move things along" with the sack. New contracts need to have a provision for teaching and writing for external mode. Not that I can't understand the resentment: if academics extra work is going to result in more fees, then they want some of this to trickle through into their pockets. The fact is that almost every other serious university in the world has a distance learning requirement so if they want a job elsewhere and can not demonstrate experience with distance learning...well?