Faculty of Laws Newsletter : March 2024 : issue 17

Abstract

During a meeting held during February between the College of Deans and the University Rector, the Dean, Faculty for the Built Environment, raised the issue of how his Faculty is constantly under fire from practitioners and students alike, all of whom have their own ideas about how and what the UM should lecture, and all of who believe that the UM is too theoretical and does not do enough to prepare the students for the profession. Other attendees shared similar experiences within their own faculties; the Rector's advice was to engage continuously with stakeholders, listen to their criticism and consider it carefully; ultimately however the UM and its Academics must remain in control of the curriculum and must remain the ultimate decision-takers where academic content is concerned.

This is indeed what the Faculty of Laws has been doing for quite a while. Indeed we are in the middle of such a process with the Chamber of Advocates itself; we are listening, we are discussing and are taking the time to explain our thinking, our views and reasons why certain things are done in a certain way, but we are also ready to adapt and to adopt suggestions where this is possibe and where we are convinced that these will lead to a better product.