outback to jungle

Musings on experiences of volunteering in Papua New Guinea with some gratuitous domestic social and public comment

Monday, April 24, 2006

why do people tell me

these things? There is so much resentment about the University's not having got its act together that the academic staff in particular will tell anyone who seems to come to them from an administration perspective. My doing the awareness raising makes me look as though I have come as a messenger from the hierarchy. They are resentful that registration was such a shambles at the beginning of this year and now the students are wanting extensions on their assignments which will push the academics' timetables for completing their schedules out. They see an administration in which only one of the senior executives out of the top five is on campus. They see themselves tied to the classroom while senior executives live away from home in order to pick up a K500 living away from home allowance. They see gravy being poured on the administrators' plates while they eat the lowest coloured brand of Ox and Palm boiled offal. They are resentful at the low quality students which are being accepted by the University to get money. They are resentful that they will be contracted to write external courses which will bring in fees for the administrators to buy boats and buy more living away from home allowances while they will not be rewarded for their efforts which has been responsible for bringing in the fees. That's why people tell me these things. There is so much resentment.

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