Tri-semester Problems To Be

Tri-semester Problems To Be

It’s been a long and very tiring week. Time flies by very quick at this period of the month especially during the campaign period for general election SRCUTP 2010/2011 session. Quoting from what Acap said when I asked advice from him, ‘you have to win the hearts of people from every aspect using every method that exist’. Frankly speaking, a lot of sacrifices have been made for this campaign.  Hopefully, all goes well InsyaAllah, Gods willing. Previously, I have written about the overview of why tri-semester system is implemented; now I think I’ll share my thoughts on what’s going to happen in UTP next semester.

                One of the problems that I can see is the course structure needs reconstruction again. Logically, with the addition of one extra semester the total credit hours needed to graduate must be revised. As stated by Ahmad Munir’s comment from my previous post, certain program needs to add subjects to increase the total credit hours. Apart from that, I can see the possibility of increasing course that have low credit hours like co curriculum courses can be increased from 2 credit hour to 3 credit hour. This may also lead to problem s for current undergraduate student where I can see that certain academic batch may have to take lots of credit hours for a short period of time. One example is for Jan08 batch, my batch. For our final year maybe we have to take the same total credit hour for final year for a period of approximately six months. That’s a burden and a pain in the neck especially for chemical engineering program as we have our final year project and final year design project. Overall, I hope by then a solution can be proposed but I think we better prepare ourselves for the worse.

                Other than that, I can see that all the events in UTP need to be revised thoroughly.  With the change in the semester period and break period I can foresee that certain events needs be rescheduled and maybe there are events that need to be cancelled. What I can expect is there may be a drastic decrease in the number of events organized in UTP as problems will arise such massive overlap of events due to only six months of teaching semester in one year. Hopefully, a counter measure can be proposed to overcome this.

                Overall, it is assumed that UTP will be unstable for several years of implementing this new system. I hope that things will go well. Lastly, before I stop writing I want to wish all of the candidates of general election SRCUTP 2010/2011 session good luck and may the best person win!!!