Reflection on meeting

Reflection on meeting

Venue: W007

Date: Wednesday 14th March

Present:

Yousef, H00234805, Chairman

Khaled, H00207564 , Secretary

Ameer Salem, H0023533, Participant

Yousef opened the meeting with a nice welcome to Hedley and talked about the agenda of solutions for the problem. He arranged the meeting class neatly one by one. The problem under discussion is students who live far away from college.

The first solution is to build another branch outside Abu Dhabi.  Ameer:  it’s an important and useful point like Zayed University and ADWC. Hedley didn’t agree because ADMC has space to expand.

Recommendations:

1.       Change the time to start the classes after the peak time.

2.       Collages provide transport (buses) for students.

3.       Increase number of online courses.

4.       Build dorm for students who want to stay in the campus.

5.       Let students organize the time for their classes.

In my opinion I think the best solution is let students organize the time for their classes.  It helps students to come to college at a better time for them. Also, they can choose the time of classes after peak time to avoid traffic jams. In this case the college is not responsible if students are late. The second solution is increase number of online courses. It will decrease the number of classes students have to take at college.

Meeting Activity

Meeting Activity



Problem: students live far away from college (ADMC)



Date and time of meeting: March 14, 2012 at 11:00 am



Venue: W007



Group members:

·Chair: Yousef

·Minute taker: Khalid

·Participant: Ameer

Venue preparation:

v Grouping of chairs round table.

Agenda:

1)    Build another branch outside Abu Dhabi

2) Change the time to start the classes after the peak time.

3) Give students who live far from ADMC more time for being late.

4) College provides transport (buses).

5) Increase number of online courses.

  Build another branch outside Abu Dhabi

Ameer said it’s important and useful like Zayed University and ADWC. They built another branch outside Abu Dhabi in Khalifa City.



Hedley thought that ADMC has space to expand and this solution will be in the future.



Yousef said this solution gives more chance to accept more students in the new branch outside Abu Dhabi.

   Change the time to start the classes after the peak time.

All Government departments and companies start at 8:00 am at the same time as the college.



Ameer said I leave my home at 7:00 am to reach the college at 8:00 am because I face heavy traffic on the way to the college. Also, sometimes there are accidents which impede traffic that make the student late.



Hedley agreed with this idea.

Give students who live far from ADMC more time for being late.

Hedley said I am not strict with the late in the morning classes. Ameer said I had an accident 3 days ago and I was half an hour late for the math class. Then I showed my teacher the paper for the accident but he marked me late.

College provides transport (buses).

Yousef said as you know all students have cars and make traffic jams. So the college should provide transport for the students. Hedley said do you think students will leave their cars and come by bus. Yousef said if I always come late I will come by bus, because the college will be responsible.

  Increase number of online courses.

Khaled said this is the important point in the problem. Increase number of online courses to help students to do some homework at home.



Hedley suggested the college could teach a part of this course online such as submit reflections and reports online because we are in HCT.