Yeah I do not know. I have all of these frustrations as well. Even paragraphs! I had one student write basically 3500 words in two or three paragraphs. As a reader I was completely lost.
Luckily you only have 30. I have 64 essays of philosophy of about 3500 words each. And they are not making sense. If they actually did the work I gave them, the reading would have been okay but:
NO ONE (okay maybe 30%) DISCUSSED THE TOPICS I GAVE THEM.
I mean in what world do you completely ignore the topics of your assignment and write about whatever you want? How did we end up in a situation where these adults (they are 21 and older) cannot even do basic things like essay writing?
🤣 the topics being ignored kills me. I have students writing about land use when the topic is on regional differences. These two are miles apart 😂. I don't even know if it's funny or sad.
I do know that SA needs a shift in education, specifically focused on universities. We keep lowering acceptance requirements and pass rates. By keeping to this we are gonna end up with a generation waiving around degrees and not knowing anything. Accountability, work ethics, effort and constant improvement is so important when going out into the world. Just hoping somewhere students realise the degree means nothing if the boss ain't pleased with your work.
I am finding this out the hard way. The university is about making money. To not give too much away, but if a student fails the university does not get their money from the state. I am sure you are aware of the numbers. I think a PhD in 3 years is worth almost 400k, master's almost 120k, articles 120k, and undergrad students in 3 years about 20-30k if I remember correctly. So the waiving of degrees without much knowledge is a real thing haha. But I am sure you know about this. No one is hiding these numbers.