ELTE Save Face
ELTE - a prestigious and promising word indeed, but only for people with an external viewpoint. Those who get a chance to have a look from the inside would think twice before saying that ELTE is 'prestigious' or 'promising'. The institution behind the word, 'ELTE' is losing its prestigious nature due to such factors as the slowness of student administration, the infeasibility of the curricula or the state of the copying facilities. The balance between the offers on part of the university and the realisation of these offers is lost and with it the prestige of the university is going up in smoke.We can obviously consider the Registrar's Department the heart of the administrational system, as it is the place where the students' problems should be dealt with. Hardly anyone, besides the students themselves, knows that it usually takes a month to have the smallest matter settled.According to the official opening hours, the registrars are at our service from 10 AM to 3 PM Monday to Thursday and from 10 AM to 1 PM on Friday. These are undoubtedly regular opening hours for such offices but they should have taken into account the fact that most students have classes at that time, and the majority of those classes
By a radical change in teachers' and employees' attitude, complaints could be reduced in quantity and in quality. Having to wait hours until someone opens the door is not rare, not to mention how many times they say 'Sorry, we cannot help you right now. If some students can arrive in time by chance, they often find a closed door with a notice saying 'out for lunch'. Changing attitude does not cost a penny but it cannot make a Xerox work either. The lecture course is useful, since it summarises the key facts and gives a general picture. Sometimes she has to cancel a lecture for various reasons, whereas the course is designed for 14 sessions. On each lecture on the American Literature course the teacher has to deal with 3-4 authors if she wants to cover everything that is included in the schedule. Instead, students are required to photocopy hundreds of pages of lecture notes and library material while all the copying facilities are either closed or out of order. However, the obvious tendency at present is that lecture courses are becoming increasingly general, and thus more and more material is included in the curricula for each term, while the seminar courses are disappearing rapidly. The seminar course is practical, as it brings the material closer to the student and provides some personal experience as well, which raises involvement in the subject matter. Where does this lead?It would be useful if there were books which cover the same material as each lecture course but there is no such thing at the moment. Some might say that all these problems are rooted in financial grounds, that the university does not have enough money to develop or at least maintain the level of its services and facilities. The question is whether it is fair to 'punish' the students because the state does not countenance higher education sufficiently.
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Registrar's Department,
Save ELTE,
Literature II',
Course Descriptions,
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