December 8th 2009
Prof Dato’ Ar W.Y. Chin
Dean of Faculty of Architecture and Build Environment
Limkokwing University of Creative Technology
Cyberjaya
To whom it may concern,
The reconsideration upon the potential discontinuation of the contract staffs, part-time staff
We as the representative of FABESAA (Faculty of Architecture and Build Environment Student Association and Alumni), would like to express our deepest concern over the potential discontinuation of contract upon the part-time lecturers who have been tutoring us since we joined this university.
It has come to our concern that, we being part of the faculty should assist in making a better change as to improve the quality and reputation of university, in terms of assessment criteria and work delegations. Given a well-experienced lecturer not just in the architectural field but with the upper hand with the mutual understandings with the Curtin standards, our lecturers, priory the contract staffs has proven worthy of the position. This is indeed beneficial for the students due to the assurance of guidance and motivations given by the lecturers. The learning experience between the lecturers and students is cultivated through various means of sharing life experiences on both parties, thus it is something that the fellow students are very grateful about.
It has come to our deepest concern that, the faculty and the respective departments will seriously reconsider the decision upon the termination of the contract staffs. As the student body representative and a student who is merging into the graduating semester, it has come to my concern that the availability of lecturers that can cater the needs of the students are of importance. To be able to work with lecturers of our interest would help in the overall productivity of the studio works which we had been able to excel for the past few semester. Indeed the working environment that has been cultivate is not something that can be replace at a blink of an eye, as there is an old saying ‘ Rome is not build in one day’.
We, as the student body, understand that the faculty have their own policy to fulfill and it has never came to our minds a sense of doubt on working ethic of the faculty. We are just a bunch of students who wants to highlight that discussed matter, where this group of lecturers deserves a better acknowledgement and treatment from the faculty management. In due respect, most of the contract staffs are indeed under-paid for the amount of work loads that has been delegated to their work scope as per mentioned in the assigned contract which they received from the starting of the semester. On the other hand, there are incidents where the respective employees of the faculty were under-paid as compared to the amount of work load delegated by the management. This has intern caused drastic change in reputation to the university is appropriate action is not taken care of.
Last but not least, with this letter, we as a group of students hope that the faculty will consider our welfare of education as its ultimate priority.
Thank you for your kind consideration of this matter.
Sincerely,
President of FABESAA
Saw Kheng Wei