Internet access still a challenge

Internet access is still a challenge at the National University of Science and Technology and yet we need it day in day out to advance science and technology in Zimbabwe.

We only have a few of these transmitters at NUST

With the growth of the digital age, Internet use is becoming more and more necessary by the rise of another day and every student should have full access to the service.

Contrary to that, only a few corners at the institution are covered with wi-fi network  and again in the odd hours of the day; only a few students access it.

Cable network is only available in less than five ports the whole compass and the rest have 'never been serviced ever since they where installed' ... they are not working

Researching online is such a challenge under such circumstances and students are forced to visit Internet cafes and pay $1 per hour after paying hundreds of dollars as their academic fees.

Part four students are doing their projects and they need full access to the net but it is a rare resource. The library is poorly equipped with literature and we need books from the web.

The faculty of Communication and Information Science has courses which rely basically on online services and Internet access is a pre-requisite. Its non availability is posing a tremendous challenge to the flow of academia.

 Even the computer labs are not fully equipped with Internet access; I wonder how they want us to operate in this digital age where everything is happening on the world wide web.

In other cases, cable network and wi-fi are found where there is no power access and yet due to the hard work we give to our laptops, batteries are now almost off.

But still, they don't even care about us...