Mbarara University of Science and Technology is clouded with teargas and rubber bullets as students demonstrate against lecturers’ prolonged strike and online lectures.
The students are aggrieved that science subjects can not be taught online and that since they reported back on 1st March, lecturers have stayed away from campus as they strike against non streamlined salary scales.
Police is engaged in running battles with students who have mounted road blocks and are burning tyres around the campus.
Over the week, students decried the on-going Academic Staff strike which resulted into no classes at all for some, and an online mode of learning for other select courses, most of which, are from the Faculty of Interdisciplinary studies. This, the students say, is contrary to the presidential directive to have classes fully resume on March 1st, and has limited them financially and academically.
In a communication issued to students yesterday, the University’s Guild President Elect, Ms Mariam Iculet Arikosi noted the different terms which the University Management agreed upon concerning the the classes abnormalities.
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