Standards are dropping.
I'm currently in a discussion with an associate professor regarding a module where the primary lecturer has been MIA for the entire year.
Assignments are still outstanding, and the exam is next week.
In this discussion, I was told that the primary lecturer uploaded videos and links to YouTube (he did not), and that means we should be just fine passing this module. My response to him was that we do not pay to watch videos, we pay to be educated by lecturers appointed to do exactly that.
This isn't my first rodeo with Unisa, but honestly, it is by far the worst. Good luck to us all!
Edit: Primary and secondary lecturers of a stats module were both instructed by the department head to conduct an exam prep/assignment review session today ahead of the exam on Monday. Neither of them has bothered to show up. I rest my case.