UNISA - An incredibly low quality institution you should avoid

Dont study here. The incompetence you see in government is rife at Unisa. They constantly have issues with portals, the implement complicated systems and processes and students are constantly burdened and held down with these problems trying to understand what is going on.

The lecturers are in my opinion fast asleep and completely uselss, they are very uninvolved in your journey so expect to register, get your books and work on your own. I spent many years here and I will say that I have never seen it improve, I feel embarresed saying i have a Unisa qualification and you will see employers dont have respect for these qualifications coming out of unisa.

You can mail queries you can phone and spend hours waiting to speak to people but dont expect much. Then when you do get through you risk getting bad information and making bad decisions as I experienced on occasion. The same goes for administration, exams, myunisa and registrations departments, all round uselss.

They also have a very poor implementation of online exams which trust me will leave you stressed. IRIS is one of the most buggy systems i encountered but they just continue making things more and more difficult. Also when using that plugin, you have to accept Australian privacy laws.

All round there is extremely poor and sub standard performance from the institution and its employees, it is ranked very low in the world nowadays and it shocks me that they celebrate this mediocraty, the same way you see in government.

Then they leak your information to these shady educational instutions who try to offer you exam services such as literally assisting you with exams and assignments and providing classes, etc. A number of students have already been caught this way but Unisa continues to give out vulnerable and stressed outstudents information to these institutions. I was caught, www.tutorialc a m pus.co.za sent an sms out offering classes. They then take your money and cancel classes and leave you sitting in the dark. All the while, lecturers at the university should be helping students prepare for exams but nothing. Its a horrible place to be.

All of these issues point to really low standards and the heightened levels of cor ruption in the country, if you are interested in academia and getting a really good quality education, go private or to WITS, UJ, any other uni will be better, UNISA is not the place for true academia.