{"id":22198,"date":"2013-08-28T19:55:09","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T17:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/unisa-responds-to-expose\/"},"modified":"2013-08-28T19:55:09","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T17:55:09","slug":"unisa-responds-to-expose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/unisa-responds-to-expose\/","title":{"rendered":"Unisa responds to expos\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Unisa has responded to a Carte Blanche investigation into its marking system, which was screened on Sunday. <\/p>\n

\u201cManagement has immediately instituted an urgent, incisive and all-inclusive audit of the assessment processes, with a view to identifying the root causes of the kinds of problems that were brought to the attention of the university,\u201d the institution said on Tuesday. <\/p>\n

Bongani Bingwa, the Carte Blanche presenter, tweeted before the show: \u201cAt nearly 400K, are Unisa students getting a fair deal? Many allege the institution is not coping.\u201d <\/p>\n

The show segment, titled \u201cMarked down and ticked off\u201d, investigated claims that Unisa had many flaws in its marking systems. <\/p>\n

There were two incidents where a student submitted the same assignment twice and received different marks for it. <\/p>\n

A past student claimed that only a percentage of the assignments were marked, and the rest were then given an average, which would explain why eight other A-students on the show all got the same mark of 37.14 percent for an assignment. <\/p>\n

Unisa management stressed that \u201cthe issues raised by Carte Blanche do not reflect the existence of a pervasive problem within the university\u2019s assessment systems and processes. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe nevertheless take a grave view of them since they have a very negative impact on the reputation and integrity of the university, and\u2026 may also seriously compromise the integrity of our qualifications.\u201d <\/p>\n

Unisa said it would review the appointment of markers and improve its quality-control measures. <\/p>\n

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