I wrote briefly yesterday (28 July 2008) about the University of Swaziland (UNISWA) misleading people into thinking it had secured the services of a Fulbright Scholar for its journalism and mass communication department.
The university had applied to have a distinguished scholar but nobody wanted to come.
But it is not all doom and gloom on this front. The chemistry department at the university has recently said farewell to a Fulbright professor who visited for 10 months.
Jim Yoder has now returned to his base at Hesston College in the United States of America where he has taught for 35 years.
Yoder has been telling his college newspaper about his experiences in Swaziland. He is mostly upbeat, but he also talks about the class boycotts that frustrated the university during the dispute over semesterisation.
He also acknowledged how HIV AIDS is a disaster in the kingdom. He told the newspaper that ‘every student’ is ‘hoping to find a cure for HIV/AIDS, an overwhelming, ever present cloud over that country and the whole region of South Africa’.
You can read more about Yoder’s experiences in Swaziland by clicking here
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THE UNSWAZI BOY IS BACK IN TOWN
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