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16

University of Mauritius Lazy Administration and Rules

By bhoot // Lallmatie & Mauritius // 14 Comments

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I have am going back to UOM this semester like many others for my MSc… and I have to say that the rules still suck as they did many years ago… Come on 80% attendance for postgraduate courses? Is it a joke… Many will not be able to make it to the lectures (not easy to get releases)… And their timetables… No communication from the administration prior to their when exactly the course if going to start… I mean, not even an email (do they even know how to email)…

The admin’s biggest fault is that they don’t understand your point. They couldn’t care less that you have to take loans to pay the nearly 80K per year for an MSc or 100K for MBA… They want instant payment even if they give you only 1 day to make arrangements for it… They of all people should know about these things… Blame the Mauritius Post for the delay if you want (that’s another debate), but they still could have emailed you instantly, afterall, you can put your email in the application…

I have to say that the lecturers have improved. They want to change the university for better, fairer principles but are getting stopped somewhere… I’m not saying that there are no lazy lecturers, they’re still here! But it’s good that most are not. I’m quite pleased with the interest that most lecturers put in their lectures and their preparations.

UOM has also has a SLOW and ARCHAIC website (actually a shame for such a university, if you compare to Europe, yes we should compare to Europe cause many of their professional grade websites are designed in Mauritius!) .

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14 Comments to “University of Mauritius Lazy Administration and Rules”

Bruno 16 August 2009 at 11:39

Priscus also blogged about another problem faces by post-grads in UoM: inadequate transport facilities
Kurt Avish 16 August 2009 at 12:11

You’re right. And today right now as I write this comment another fear is in the mind of UOM students… why the government or UOM administration are not saying anything concerning h1n1.

Last week among friends reports, 5 students went home from UOM due to flu symptoms. We don’t know more as statistics are only for school students.

Yet nothing about this yet. As for the UOM website, I had written a pwnage post about them some time ago. From what I could gather from contacts in there is that they were so ashamed of their own CITS dept that to justify their foolishness and incapacity to do worth things they started pointing grammatical mistakes in my English lol.

‘As if I blog to participate in an English Vocabulary contest”.
morinn 16 August 2009 at 18:30

Yeah it’s true that they do not allow much time to make the payments.
bhoot 16 August 2009 at 23:48

True about transport facilities. Some have to leave early during lectures to catch the bus… sinon, once it’s dark, and one of my contacts has seen thieves in Reduit… NTC is another lazy institute (they don’t seem to service their bus as needed, nor put enough buses where needed! Just compare their buses and recent timings to UBS, TBS or other companies…)

CITS, what to say… tell them you’ve lost your email password and they’ll email you the password to that same email account!
bhoot 16 August 2009 at 23:55

Well some people say that the 80% attendance is to ensure that the level of the postgrad does not become cheap and that without it, attendance would be so low that it’d be havoc to manage or lecture…
Raj 28 December 2009 at 16:17

I am also doing my MBA at at another university in mauritius, i am a working student same as all my class mate. this semester i didnt go to any of the lecture because of the november-december bottle neck at office. but i just attended the class tests.

[quote]ensure that the level of the postgrad does not become cheap and that without it, attendance would be so low that it’d be havoc to manage or lecture…[/quote]

this is just a b**shit for a post graduate course. if the student can study by himself and be present in the exam as due why should he attend the class?

if he can pass the exam without being in the class there is no need for him to be in …
bhoot 28 December 2009 at 18:56

Well post grad isn’t about exams! if you think so, you’re missing the whole point of doing your MBA. We’re not talking degree level (even there, being exam oriented can be bad for your professional life).

On the other hand, MBA students are usually employed full-time (97% of my class) and obviously, most of them are in the private sector with long working hours. It’s not practical to expect that level of attendance. If they can manage to complete their MBA as expected without that level of attendance, it’s good for them and the uni.
bhoot 10 March 2010 at 12:45

little correction… while most are in private sector, roughly 30% come from public institutions…
ConversationLimited 6 May 2010 at 18:07

I just want to start by saying Im not related to UOM in any way.

For me, doing an MBA course is not about reading from books and then going for exams. If that is what most people think about doing an MBA, then I really pity them.

MBA is about gaining industry knowledge and interacting with the great thinkers in the field. Its about developing a new mindset and paradigm. This can only be achieved via interaction not only with your classmates but also the lecturers and so on…

Just remember, doing an MBA just for getting the degree is not worth it and a complete waste of money.
amey 17 June 2010 at 23:06

i m indian student i wish to apply for full time mba in uni of mauritius
how to apply there please guide
bhoot 18 June 2010 at 07:34

Instructions for foreign students are here:
http://www.uom.ac.mu/international/index.html
claire 21 June 2010 at 21:00

hi i am still waiting 4 a reply from UOM,i only want to know,if UOM send “reply letters” to inform the persons that they havn’t been accepted a seat or they only send to those who hav been given a seat.i havn’t received any postal reply since i’ve returned my admission form.
bhoot 21 June 2010 at 22:54

They’ll reply only if you get the seat. Otherwise, you can call and enquire.
student 5 March 2011 at 17:29

That is true, beware for those who are going to enroll in UOM because its no more an Education institution but a Money Maker institution which find lot of ways to remove money from many student. example you must pay a fine for late registration or de-registration, pay for exemption of exam paper, pay a penalty which is 2 times your yearly course fees + your course fees again if you repeat a whole year.

Most of the infrastructure are in bad conditions. Lots of bad services and bad communication. when you have a problem and asked for an information, they don’t know the answer, its like they are playing soccer and you are the ball who go in all directions before you could reach someone to get the proper information and even the last person that you could reach don’t know exactly what to reply you.

concerning quality of teaching for lecturers, its average because some lecturers are very lazy and the worst thing is that they consider teaching at UOM is like a part time job and they have more important job to do for other company.

Moreover, i have heard that there are also big discrimination at UOM that for some modules you should have ” MET JUPE” so that you can pass and you can even get an A+. or you can get the answer for the exams question just one day before exam at a special site which the lecturer told you to enroll.

The worst thing that i have heard that even in the examination section they do discrimination when they put the result for student. A group of students have failed there course work which therefore, they should have automatically fail for this particular module according to some rule of UOM, but fortunately for some students of this group who have passed the module while others should do this module a whole year again. May be these fortunate students have relative who work in the examination section or have good “backing”.

good luck for those who are going to take courses at University of Mauritius