Develoment focus: your kind of university

 The world today is so advanced, however besides technical advancement there is a lot of other changes we can bring to life to impact our reality.

The opportunity to do a problem based learning approach for work integrated learning has made me realize the power I hold as a communicater. No message is recieved unless communicated. During the public relations course it stood out the to me that communication is power, it is through communication that worlds colide, it is a form of expression regardless if the message is good or bad as long as it is potent enough to do its job. Therefore my goal is to spread the word about how the university of Johannesburg can do more for it's students.

As a student there is a lot of pressure and strain when pursuing a course not knowing what the next step will be when you have to find a job or an internship to do your practicals that will give you work experience. It is stressful! There are new graduates every year😱🤯😩 where will your work position come from?

 what if uj could give you a job regardless of the course you doing!
This is what I have came to realize, it hit me that South Africa lacks jobs because of many reasons for instance social issues, but its not like there is nothing that can be done about it. 
The university has an estimated number of at least fifty thousand students every year therefore if R300 (three hundred rand) is increased on annual fees per student  the university can have R15000000 (fifteen million) to invest on different projects. 
Like what?

No matter how things may change, there are some things that can never change for instance the need to eat. UJ trains students who what to become peoffesionals in the their feilds of study. How then can jobs come from the institution?  In a bare instance students in agriculture can plant crops (vegetation), students in architecture can design and build a cafeteria in all four campus, students enrolled in interior design can design and structure the funiture and color of the cafeteria, students in cookery can cater for students at the cafeteria using vegetation planted by uj farmers. Students in communication will be tasked with designing messages and communication strategies about what the university is doing for it's students to draw more customers.
Besides satisying the need for food  in students lifes practical work has been created for students in five different fields.  Imagine how much satisfaction can be given to general students as well as those who will be working to bring a cafeteria to life, not only will students eat jealtheir work experience will ne created. Therefore if we continue to come up with different ideas about how every student can add value to the university and get work experience at the same time, then we might just be sailing to greener pastures. 

There is great value in being innovative, because innovation equals more productivity. Imagine the amount of stress that would be lifted from students to know that if they fail to get an internship the university will gladly accomodate them.


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