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By the way, " The highest levels of absenteeism were recorded at the ministries of education and information, followed by higher education and health."
Interestingly, not all educational faculty, professors and administrators are equally concerned with the issues of either tardy-ism or absenteeism. Typical of these instructors is Dr. Ibrahim Inwa, head of the anatomy department at the Sultan Qaboos College of Medicine. In one recent newspaper interview, Dr. Inwa stated, "The causes of absenteeism that I usually hear included: I have overslept because I spent the whole night studying.[or ] I think I am not benefiting from the classes, or I have a problem with transportation. The most common cause I commonly hear from the student is we have an exam after the lecture and we are preparing for it.'"
Dr. Inwa continues, "Inactive classes are really a serious problem for the instructor themselves. However, students shouldn't be forced to attend the lecture. I believe attending the lecture shouldn't even be compulsory and attending classes is directed by the way the student likes to learn in. There are so many different ways of learning and lectures are just one. The only solution is to make the classes more interactive and enjoyable. "Team based learning' makes students attend classes and this was applied for the last two semesters in the course of "introduction to anatomy' where the attendance was almost full.'"
INSUFFICIENCY OF
TEAMS WITHOUT ATTENDANCE
While I agree that team-based learning which is combined with team-work (individual and group-work) evaluations can motivate students to attend classes, and through teamwork, they can become involved more in improving their own life-long learning habits. Nonetheless, short-term absentee issues can lead to long-term absenteeism in most any setting where students do not actually learn to study better or are not motivated to take charge of their own study habits or lives in any serious manner.
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