Problems with Several of Jamaica's Part Time Educational Institutions.

When a government worker chooses part time education as a means of upgrading himself, he does it with various reasons in mind:

1.  not permanently employed but still saw the need to upgrade his education.
2. too many family obligations and cannot leave home for extended periods.
3. not enough full time study leave can be offered at one time to workers in the same work place.
4. more economical in option over a little longer period of time to qualify himself, and there is more.

However, with the economic problems our country is having, these part time accredited institutions seem to have been feeling the pinch.  Many of the lecturers or facilitators have not been paid recently.  To be honest some have not been paid for over three years and now, due to the refusal of the management time to explain what the situation is, it is feared that most of the lecturers will sign on to other educational institutions in the upcoming semester or just simply withdraw their services all together.


                                                               

When human resource is not being communicated with about domestic matters, especially non-payment for services rendered, this is a recipe for disaster.   Once confidence is reduced in an institution of learning then it means that both students and instructors may start transfer to other institutions.

All that is asked here, is for those institutions to tell the truth about their financial situation.  They should never make the instructors work for free!  How can it be that these institutions refuse to pay workers over five (5) semesters and refuse to talk to them when they make their queries about their pay.


My appeal to these institutions is to stop using the "carrot on a stick" approach to get qualified workers to work for nothing.  If there is no money, let them know so that they can decide to work for the institutions!  It is so unfair when teachers who work expecting to be paid,  are given the run around for months (and years!).

                                                                   

I am wishing all the best for the part-students in the upcoming semester.  They may find full classes without lecturers or the institution's doors nailed shut.  The part time institutions need to do better than this.  They need to treat their workers with more respect and stop taking students' hard earned tuition money and not pay the teachers who worked so hard to help build an educational brand!  It is clear that there is indeed a problem!