The BTech Conference came & went ...
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| Our superstar presenters - Siya & Amy |
… and finally, Saturday the 23rd of October 2010 arrived. A day that marked another milestone in the history of the department. Once again, the department delivered another very powerful message to the CPUT community - the significance of a used bookstore. A very well researched paper which was informed by the BTech students’ keenness to alleviate the plights of most students of this ivory tower. Their finding was that more than 3/4 of the students in CPUT deal badly with finance. This is for a plethora of reasons. Many of the students come from indigent homes; feeding is quite an issue not to mention buying/owning text books. Again, the collection in the library does not make room for more than a few copies of prescribed textbooks, thus creating a state where the student has to wait in a queue to get the prescribed text. When this happens, the student is the forced to either xerox online materials without acknowledging their sources. And is plagiarism such a serious offence in any university? A second hand book store will do so much for the students of this university, no doubt.
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| Mr. Stanford Mukhithi |
At the conference, the students and the department were excited to have in their midst, a director in the department of energy who had come to give the department some moral support. We enjoyed the company of Mr. Stanford Mukhithi, director of parliamentary and cabinet services in the republic's department of energy.
Some clips and videos will be posted in a very shortwhile. We'd like to share with you some of the highs and lows of the conference - stuff we'd like to call 'before and after'. Don't miss this. Keep follwoing the blog.
First weldone to the Btech students. the idea of the used bookstore is a great idea and i think student of CPUT can benefit from this. so what i want to know can this idea be done and if so i would really like know because i would like to help out
ReplyDeleteno doubt your concern is the same as most folks. its got be a cllective call. perhaps the faculty management (heads of depts, et al) must push this to executive management of the university. it can be achieved if there is leadership support. so what i think must be done is to ask our HOD to submit the issue to faculty management for deliberation.a used bookstore will facilitate learning here at CPUT.
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