Student "edition" found at {csi dot journalspace dot com}.

Maybe I shouldn't have started this blog now, not with everything that's been going on.

The director of the school of business and entrepreneurship has his own way of dealing with academic advisees.

He says they are mature enough to decide on their own subjects, knowing the rules on prerequisites and such.

That it's their fault if somewhere along the line it turns out they are ineligible for some of the subjects they chose, as determined by the registrar's office.

That's where the problem lies: the registrar's office believes that the academic advisers will be the first line of defense to make sure that the students do not employ shortcuts in their education. That's why every time there is a hitch, the first order of business is for the registrar's office to determine the loophole.

In this system, it is the director who will be blamed, but he in turn will berate the student for not doing what is supposed to be the director's job in the first place.

Of course, even with advisers as diligent as I am, there are still irregulars that get through (because they go for advising on the tenth week of classes, and not after course card distribution, even though they have failures) and all the registrar's personnel see is that adviser's signature, even though it is not dated recently.

Which means there really is room for more improvement, such as a computerized checking system for prerequisites and failures that the student cannot enroll.

But right now all that the on-line enlistment has is a disclaimer saying failures and prerequisites are not checked. Which would be so easy to implement if they just tried.

Which shouldn't be too difficult considering both the dean and the vice dean are from computer science.

Then there's also the plight of students who transferred from another school, who up to now, four years from when I got here, still do not have an official document signed by the registrar's office telling them which of their previously taken subjects in another school are credited. Even up to now, (as in the case today) I have to rely on a photocopy of the previous transcript with checks supposedly made by the registrar, which would be easy for the student to fake.

This should also be in the computerized system, and allows these students to enroll on those subjects not allowed for others with their year of entry, because they are not regular.

Session 1795 is abusing all of the loopholes of the faulty enrollment system . Class dismissed.