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Take a seat, get your cup of coffee and pretend you haven’t heard a single thing is the way to handle irrelevant issues, says the //Karas Regional Governor, Lucia Basson.
She gave the advice at the official opening of the Unam southern campus’s second annual cultural festival that was held last Thursday. She said turning a deaf ear to certain issues is sometimes the best way to deal with inconsequential matters.
Referring to a contentious article on the performance of the southern campus that was published in New Era last week, she offered advice to the campus management and its director Dr Erold Naomab.
She said being a politician she has learned how to manage negative and sometimes baseless criticism, saying that in most cases ignoring petty issues is the best thing to do.
“If you know you are doing a good job, if you know you are working according to the university values then you must just ignore some of these things,” she said looking in the direction of Naomab.
Basson said that some people blindly refuse to recognize and appreciate efforts to improve the campus, but rather run to the media.
“To such people I say, stop harassing staff members of the campus and don’t undermine government efforts to eradicate poverty,” she stated.
Speaking at the same event, Naomab reassured the regional governor that the campus, in its second year, is on the right path and gave statistical evidence “as proof”.
He said the campus successfully offered 44 modules last semester and 44 modules for the second semester are currently also offered, with all modules having lecturers.
“Governor, not only do we teach, we ensure quality in learning, skills and knowledge transfer,” he said.
Naomab added that the academic performance on the campus is outstanding, underlining that the pass rate in the language centre and school of nursing is 100 percent, while a pass rate of 97 percent was attained in economic and management sciences, and a 98 percent pass rate in the education faculty.
He said the campus has a 100 percent staff retention, and that many people want to join the campus because they share the same philosophy and values.