@sitholesthe
Every first year in university deserves a mentor to
assist them with their academic work and give them a start – especially at the
beginning of the year. A lot of the time students have to stand in long queues
while processing last minute paper work, they would get lost as they move from
office to office and yet still have to get to lectures and might even get left
behind in their work. That is where mentors come in to assist.
In South Africa a lot of schools also have an education
system that doesn’t prepare most students for university. In high school
students have teachers who spoon feed them the whole time whereas at university
they will get lectures and lecturers, but they have to do a chunk of the work
by themselves and lecturers just work as facilitators as it would be getting
discussed in class after readings would or should have been done for homework.
Many students aren’t used to this and as a result fail to do the readings
properly or end up not doing them at all expecting the lecturer to spoon-feed
like the high school teacher did.
