Call for Tuks name change

Tanarri said:
You are talking to student from UP. And I know you perceptions of dwindling must be very different from mine. Some Afrikaans people prefers their tuition in English, because the rest of the business world is mostly English.

Let's say more than than 10 000 students prefer their tuition in Afrikaans. HOW IS THAT DWINDLING? LOL
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Hey man, for a university that was once 100% Afrikaans 10 000 out of 38 499 students is dwindling. By virtue of being an academic institution UP has to show progress and I think it's doing very well even though some wish they could keep it shackled to the past.
 
Bageloo said:
Hey man, for a university that was once 100% Afrikaans 10 000 out of 38 499 students is dwindling. By virtue of being an academic institution UP has to show progress and I think it's doing very well even though some wish they could keep it shackled to the past.
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Actually, tell me when it was 100% Afrikaans?

The stats didn't show the mother language of students enrolled at UP. It showed the language in which they prefer education. Seeing as over a million South Africans (large percentage are Afrikaners) have left since 1994, mainly to English speaking countries, I wonder why they prefer it in English? Another reason was already mentioned, but it seemed you missed it.

It what way is the university, that is internnationally accredited with various degrees, enrolling more 'previously disadvanted students', shackled to the past?

A 10 000 student increase (mainly not white I would guess) in 5 years means that the percentage of Afrikaners has went down. The number of Afrikaans students on campus is quite evident by first hand experience.
 
Tanarri said:
Actually, tell me when it was 100% Afrikaans?
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Considerable transformation has taken place over the past few years, with the result that the University has changed from a mainly white, Afrikaans university, to a national university in the true sense of the word, accessible to all South Africans
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. This is the preamble to their student profile. Don't attack me, I'm just presenting to you what's on the university's website. If it's not true you are more than welcome to take it up with the unversity's marketing/communications department
 
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Tanarri said:
Actually, tell me when it was 100% Afrikaans?
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Tanarri, I studied at TUKS from 1987 - 1991, if you could find a class presented in English then I would have bought you a case of beer. It was then an Afrikaans language institution.
 
fivelza said:
Tanarri, I studied at TUKS from 1987 - 1991, if you could find a class presented in English then I would have bought you a case of beer. It was then an Afrikaans language institution.
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As a current student Tanarri should be ashamed of his ignorance about the University's history.
 
Bageloo said:
Actually NO. My wife enrolled there for undergraduate in 2000 and they had English classes already. Transformation in the institutions of higher learning was always ahead of the rest of the country whereas uneducated people tend to hang on to their racist bigotry for longer.
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OK, now you mention race. (I guess you have a whole pack somewhere :D .)

Am I right in assuming that changing all institutes of education from Afrikaans to English is what you call "transformation"?
 
I doubt it will change, I study at the University of Pretoria and most of the students don't want the name to change (that includes Black people). I am friends with quite a few black people who all wear their tuks shirts proudly and don't want the name to change.

They know their in a great University with a reputation for being one of the best.

The debate hasn't even reached main campus yet (Lynwood campus). (I have still to hear about it there, this is the first I've seen about it).

The votes of main campus will easily overthrow those of Mamelodi campus and Groenkloof campus and there are plenty of white students (who lets face it won't want the name to change to some ANC,PAC or whatever leader's name), when I say plenty I mean we're either even or more than the black people, at least that is how it looks to me each day. But I hang around the IT , Economic Business Management and Engineering buildings so it might be different elsewhere.

Whoever though it up can kiss the idea goodbye, it's not gonna happen. Not this year anyway (and not next year either unless there is some kind of drastic change).
 
Not that I'm from Pretoria, but I'd definately say leave the name alone, it has a LONG history and is recognised worldwide as being a very very good University.

I studied at the University of Natal and thankfully finished just before it became UKZN and merged with the then University of Durban-Westville, and all I can say is that it had to start rebuilding its reputation from scratch again, and of course is failing miserably and from what I can tell the university is on the verge of collapsing all together.

The worry I have in this country is that with changing the names of all these universities, is that they're destroying institutions with many decades of history and brand and then proceeding to destory the new entities with corruption and complete ineptitude.
 
I agree that EVERONE at Tuks wears their Tshirts proudly so I doubt anyone would want the name to change. WTF is up with all the name changes in this country?
 
feo said:
I agree that EVERONE at Tuks wears their Tshirts proudly so I doubt anyone would want the name to change. WTF is up with all the name changes in this country?
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Got to go and get me a Tuks T-shirt.

Not that much on the main campus these days :)

I miss the pizza slices , sitting on the grass lawn (theology building) and chilling :rolleyes:
 
Eish I don't like that theology building, had a few lectures there thank goodness they were moved. But yeah the lawn in front of the Aula is lekka :)
 
Think it's a pity to change the name as they have built up a really strong brand, without the name the brand means very little. They'll have to start from scratch with a name that most international institutions won't recognise.
 
In the end it is all powerplay games. But it does backfire after a while.
 
Gnome said:
The votes of main campus will easily overthrow those of Mamelodi campus and Groenkloof campus and there are plenty of white students (who lets face it won't want the name to change to some ANC,PAC or whatever leader's name.

Whoever though it up can kiss the idea goodbye, it's not gonna happen. Not this year anyway (and not next year either unless there is some kind of drastic change).
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Just out of curiosity, did the students have a say when Pretoria Technikon was renamed to Tshwane University of Technology?
 
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