Half baked

The cry is heard,
The cry is hard,
Half baked
Semi-prepared,
Questionable credentials,
Papers matching not the skills,
What exactly transpires?

The double intake menace,
That was intended to check on pace,
Of raising the literacy standards,
In higher learning institutions,
Only to worsen the situations,
As the preparedness was at its best a joke,
At its worst a mock,
No new structures,
No new lectures,
Same number of lecturers,
Staggering numbers of pursuing bachelors.
This led to reduced time for studies,
Marathon in semesters,
Overworked comrades,
Who get the motivation to cheat,
Inspiration to plagiarize,
In order to feat the status quo.

Away from the double intake,
New lifestyles in campus,
Where one opts to watch a series at the expense of lessons,
Have a picnic than attend group discussions,
Camp in social media than research on the websites,
Where the handouts are made to short notes than read for understanding,
Where sitting patterns in examinationrooms is a norm in the name of 'strongholds',
And the browsers are references in the examinations.

When first class degrees ceased been on merit,
And one's name,
One's connections,
Pockets' contents,
And the sexualized favors became, the factors for awarding,

Then half bakery emerged!!!