University of Cape Town - UCT Speciality : Biological Sciences
programme: Cosmetic Science

I joined what was supposed to be a postgraduate programme in the health sciences faculty, advertised for career transitioners. The coordinator is focused on selecting unemployed individuals and rejected anyone too astute, possibly to avoid them easily seeing through the faculty’s administration challenges and lack of academic experts. The faculty’s main drive is transformation, and its targets are monetary. They are so focused on securing funding that academics have been completely negated, with some courses never having appointed lecturers. Fee hikes are also justified by global rankings but not by the academic offering. Suicide rates are a concern, and the medical students form LGBTQ groups under the guise of activist organisations. Most students in the faculty are bursary recipients and fail to evaluate the quality of education against the fees.