The Guild leadership of Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST) has aided students who have been getting challenges while accessing online studies.
The aid was in form of smart phones which are to be given to 20 selected students with the priority given to final year students. This culture is meant to stay in place for the incoming generations to overcome study obstacles among MUST students.
While handing over the smart phones to the beneficiaries, MUST Guild President Mariam Iculet Arikosi said that the Guild couldn’t sit back as a number of students is facing challenges to access online studies.
‘’When we resumed with online studies in late June, some of our fellow students were left behinds on grounds that they were not having gadgets to support their studies. We as the Guild leaders we were concerned and we had look to help them,’’ she said.
‘’We would like to thank Dr Primrose Nakazibwe who bought our idea and sold it to her fellow staff members who contributed towards this cause. We managed to procure 20 new smart phones and are to be given out to students who were selected by their class presidents at a free cost,’’ she added.
One of the beneficiaries Nemeyimana James expressed his gratitude to the Guild Cabinet for the offer given to them in these tough times.
‘’I had failed to get a new phone which could support zoom for me to attend lectures. I have been having a friend who used to tell me what they have studied. I really thank the Guild President and her cabinet for this initiative,’’ he told Campus Bee
According to the agreements signed by the beneficiaries, the phones are to be returned after completion of their current programmes so that other students can also benefit from them.
A number of students in higher institutions of learning is still finding difficulties to adopt the new norm of studying as a result of poor network, financial problems.
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