According to some sources, SP students will be required to purchase their own laptops in the near future. Prices will of course be lower than the outside market and financial will probably be available for those needy students. Are we trying to emulate the RP model where every student is intricately linked to the wireless campus network? Will e-learning become a permanent and more dominant part of studying in SP? Do students still have to attend lectures in the future? Or will tutorials become online video conference with a camera attached to every laptop? We just have to wait and see.
But imagine this - there will be no need for SALC and the many computer labs. This certainly provides an immense saving in space and manpower!
On a similar note, MM is starting to outsource its technical support officers. This means the technicians there are not employed by SP but by some external service provider. Will these external technicians be attached to SP for long? Will they be familiar with the equipment and procedures in SP to work effieiently? What exactly are their duties? Are they supposed to help the lecturers and students in their project work? Obviously this is an important test to determine how viable this idea is in SP. If successful, will this be extended to other schools like CLS?
Other departments that may be outsourced include Library, Finance, Estates, Computer Support and probably others. What will SP be like in 5 years, 10 years time? Are there still people working here? Unthinkable??? Maybe not...
slashed at 9:07 am .