...The purpose of going to university is to learn how to make choices, learn how to use freedom responsibly. How you gonna do that when you are being treated like a primary school kid?
...If banks do not have a strict dressing code any more(completely dress down on fridays), which corporate world is the university preparing students for?

Reox....The dress code makes you equal, c'mon we are talking of adults here not high school kids.

I recall at a UON campus guys used to peep out of the window from their beds and if you see the lecturer's car being packed, you jump out of the bed onto slippers and run to class in the shorts you were sleeping in.

so if they told folks to go butt naked that wud be cool since its their college? please explain what the rationale is apart from this tired line

Theman you have pointed out exactly what the problem is.

We are producing students who's main business curriculum is how they look in the eyes of others. Rather than how to improve the businesses they work for.

Anyone who's ever received applications and resumes from these colleges will agree with me that it seems our students are busy learning how to look good, smell good, rather than producing.

This is not to say that one shouldn't dress decently and appropriately.

Probably one of the reasons when Indian companies come here the first thing that managers from these schools do is to complain how our Kenyan businesses are being taken over.

We are so busy dressing and looking good, we forgot to DELIVER RESULTS.

A woman in a miniskirt is not a prostitute. A man in a short sleeved shirt is not a thief.

Dressing codes are part of life and in some professions a necessity. eg gloves for a doctor, a helmet for a mine worker etc

however, the idea that a school can impose a certain mode of dressing on its students is plain shaddy. For a mature person going for their masters, it is ok as its their choice.

But what happens to the young guy who's parents will only pay fees at strath? Do you condemn this kid to wear clothes that they have no wish to wear. Or to attend mass even though he's got no interest in church?

It reminds me of my college days where the worst drinkers, partyist, philanderers happened to come from schools and families where "moral" standards were enforced to the core. So now you want to extend that through 4 years of college?

These are religious principals that have no business in a college.

What will happen when I open my muslim college where all students must wear hijabs since it "prepares them for the outside world"? You will all probably scream about sharia law.

The dressing code is not a business principle. It is an Opus Dei principle. It is wrong.

If it had any business ideals to stand by then ALL the BEST business schools would adopt it. Wharton doesn't have it, MIT doesn't have it, Cambridge doesn't have it. My alma mater Boston College definately never had it. So what is this business ideal it is meant to impart on the students.

Having said that. The constitution allows Strath and other such schools to demand of it from their students. They have every right to pursue it. If you don't like it don't go there.

However, if you think that how you dress will make you successful, then you have not gone to Marikiti recently. Or have never talked to a bank clerk.