Following President Museveni’s directive to have final year students across the country resume their studies, students from several universities have filed in complaints over money hungry institutions that exorbitantly charge them for the few weeks they have in their respective campuses.
A section of disgruntled students from Islamic University in Uganda (IUIU) has reached out to Campus Bee following the administration’s recent complex conditions to final year students with retakes.
According to the students, the IUIU executive board has passed a resolution that final students with pending papers in previous semesters should wait for the next semester in which such course units are offered or they should apply for recess which reportedly costs 1.2 million per paper.
The resolution has come few days after IUIU final year law students engaged the Academic Registrar, Dr. Halima Akbar through a letter requesting her office to handle their pending papers before the LDC admission deadline (15th December 2020).
Apparently, Dr. Halima told the affected students to complete their studies at IUIU first, explaining that failure to be admitted this year isn’t the end of their law career.
“You students should not tell the university what to do…failure to be admitted to LDC is not the end of the law career. Go and read for papers that the President ordered you to complete as finalists” one of the affected students quoted Dr. Halima.
However, word from insiders at IUIU has it that the university is financially struggling and they cannot afford to schedule, and hold the pending papers.
“IUIU is too broke to handle us. These staunch shieks and Islam clerics don’t have money…I don’t think they can allow to schedule pending papers for students…they fear paying lecturers” a source said.
During an Executive Board meeting that was chaired by the University Rector, it was agreed that no student with pending papers will graduate.
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