Poor Time Management by University

Time management is important to determine the success of students. The time management is not only about student’s time management, but also it is about teacher time management and university time management. The biggest problem in time management is punctuality. Student’s unpunctuality is not only comes from poor time management, but also it comes from the university’s management. Student lateness usually caused by lack of sleep, traffic jam and student’s small desire to attend the class. In the other hand, university mistakes to arrange the schedule also caused student’s unpunctuality. Poor time management by the university caused miscommunication between teachers and university’s managers, unstable schedule from the teachers and late announcement to the students.

Miscommunication between teachers and university managers are often happen. There are several problems that caused by lack of concentration. First, errors in verbal communicating that make different understanding for the listener and the speaker. For example, there will be a make class today for system thinking class at half past seven A.M. Then the university’s manager hears there will be make up class at half past eight. This mistake can cause the students late for more than one hour. Second, errors in confirmation for the schedule which make different schedule recording between teachers and university. Usually teachers are the subject who demand and chose the time for their class. Example for this mistake is while the teachers confirm the schedule with the university; the managers can record differently with the agreed schedule. The last problem is classroom availability. For example, system thinking class will have a makeup class on Tuesday which had fully booked by other class before.

Unstable schedule from the teachers is the second cause that makes university difficult in managing student’s schedule. Teachers in university usually are practitioners which have other job outside university. Moreover, they can be teachers in other university. Unpredictable teachers business can disturb student’s fixed schedule. Physical condition from teachers also determines their availability to teach. The schedule can be disorder if the teachers often unwell. About the makeup class, late confirmation from teachers can caused different perception about the schedule to university manager. To arrange the fixed schedule university manager should confirmed to the teachers more effective.

The last thing that describe the poor management by university is late schedule announcement to the students by the university can make student late and teachers waste their time to have a class. Errors in communicating with the students and slow work from the university manager are the cause university did the late announcement. For example, Mr. Charlie Lam has a makeup class at Tuesday this week at half past eight A.M, unfortunately the university manager has problem to communicate with the students or university manager very slow to inform the students. As the result, many students will come late and Mr. Charlie Lam has to wait his students.

There are three causes the student’s unpunctuality made by mistakes from university management. For conclusion, student’s unpunctuality caused not only student’s mistakes, but also it caused from poor management by university.