University of Pretoria

Some advice to all matrics. TUKS is a very good university, but do not come here if you want to go to a university who actually cares for it's students.

The university have some very good courses, but the problem is that the university is not on standard with the provision of electronic services and have a very restrictive internet policy.

A lot of the infrastructure is also quite old, and this is starting to show. There is also a lot of beurocracy in certain departments which makes it hard to get things done or to get specific information.

This can be solved if the university makes use of current technology.

First they should provide a better internet policy to students.

They can also ugrade their lecture halls to include LAN ports or wi-fi, so that it is easy to log into the universitie's intranet. (I know Uppsala University has simmilar facilities.)

They need to upgrade and just clean their library and study centre to provide a better atmosphere to study in.

The food provided in the residences is very expensive and not of a good quality. Even after a lot of complaints nothing has been done about this. (You see they do not care about their students.)
And the residence buildings are just old and blown lights is not changed, toilets is blocked for days. (Unless someone reports it, then they respond to the problem quickly, but why is this necesary when they empoy people who's work it is to inspect the buildings make sure that these problem do not arise or get fixed as soon as possible. Well some people is not doing their job.) There are no facilities in the residences to prepare your own meals.

The university could tell more of its lecturers to have blogs. Like this one gregmankiw.blogspot.com, so that students can get more insightful and practical examples about the course they are studying.

They can make more use of their website to provide information to students.

But then, they are the best is South Africa, with the course I am studying and Pretoria is a nice place to live.

So you decide.