ADUN SPEAKS | Universities must be sensitive to plight of poor students

ADUN SPEAKS | The responses to the video clip showing the lecturer scolding her student for not using a laptop in an online course went viral.

There were mixed responses to this incident.

Some criticised the lecturer for being high handed and not sympathetic to the student who could not afford a laptop.

However, others felt that the teacher was not wrong in berating the student for not bringing an essential item to the online learning process.

The lecturer assumed that if the student could afford a smartphone, certainly he could have afforded a laptop.

There might be a price difference, and maybe the smartphone was cheaper than the laptop.

I am not sure.