MEANINGLESS DEGREES AT UNISWA?

MBABANE – Some UNISWA students might find themselves with meaningless degrees after graduating.
UNISWA is an acronym for the University of Swaziland.

This follows that their programme, Community Health Nursing is not recognised by the Swaziland Nursing Council which is the nursing regulatory body in the country.
The programme is in its first year second semester and there are about 23 students enrolled in it.

According to the council’s Registrar, Glory Msibi, the university had to first engage the council before offering the programme, however, that was not the case. Msibi added that the programme was also a duplication of an existing one and further had several shortfalls which the university was made aware of. She clarified that to be a nurse in the country, one needed to have learnt general nursing.

Msibi said students doing the programme in dispute, offered at the university’s Mbabane campus, were not taught some important courses while other courses taught were referred to in names which were not used in nursing internationally. She mentioned that one of the core nursing courses was medical and surgical nursing which were not part of those in the programme’s curriculum.

Msibi shared that the university only approached them after it had advertised and admitted the students for the programme. She mentioned that they raised their concerns with it before the students started learning to give the institution time to get its house in order, however, it seems the concerns were not instantly addressed. Without recognition from the council, the students enrolled in the programme cannot be nurses after graduating.

Msibi revealed that the nursing council further suggested that the students be transferred to the General Nursing programme as they had already been admitted and it was not that different from the one they were admitted for. She said the curriculum the students were doing included some courses that were not necessary in nursing and made examples of Calculus and Algebra. She argued that such would not help the students in their intended line of work.

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