MZC College Handbook 2012-2013 - Higher Colleges of Technology

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H I G H E R C O L L E G E S O F T E C H N O L O G Y
Your commitment, while you are a student at the college, is to make the
strongest effort you can to develop yourself through learning and to assist your
fellow students and the college as a whole to promote the learning activities of
everybody. Both of these are important - a student of the HCT is both someone
who learns and who helps others learn through their participation and support for
the activity of learning.
Your teachers will work with you to help you explore the details of how you can
be a good learner. This should change over time. Some students may need more
help at the start of their time at the HCT, but all are expected to grow quickly to a
point where they can understand what their learning needs are and to take steps
independently to answer those needs.
No one can give you knowledge, although everybody will help you along the
way. Knowledge grows within a person through learning and only that person can
do the learning. Teachers can help you by teaching you or guiding you to where
you might find information and answers to your questions, your fellow students
can also help you and your books and other information sources can help, but it
is you that must do the learning.
As part of learning about the world, the HCT expects its students to meet high
standards. These include all those standards that we would expect in the world
of work - respect for others, high levels of attendance and punctuality, attention
to deadlines and other requirements. The HCT’s attendance rules are very clear
and generous, and failure to follow them is seen as evidence that a student is
not ready for the commitment that is needed by the HCT. The great majority of
students who join the HCT are ready - ready to commit themselves to meeting
high standards and to embrace learning. The HCT welcomes all such students into
our vibrant learning community.
Student Handbook - 2012-2013