Makerere School of Social Sciences. Examination scripts for several course units from this school are still unmarked.
Students from the school of Social Sciences at Makerere University may have to wait a bit longer for their last academic year’s results after news of their unmarked scripts trickled in yesterday.
According to an insider source, many lecturers, especially from the department of Sociology and responsible for marking the scripts have asked for a leave, while the rest claim they are sorting the issues of students that are to graduate in January next year.
“The issue of examination results here [at the school of Social Sciences] has now set in. Responsible people have locked their offices. Examination scripts of sociology are still unmarked. So I even don’t know when the results of last semester will be released,” the source revealed.
Empty notice board near the office of head of sociology department
But delayed release of examination results is not the only issue that is facing this school that falls under the College of Humanities and Social Science (Chuss). The source also intimated about the dirt surrounding the preparation of graduation lists.
“You can’t imagine there are students who had been added onto the graduation lists last year even when they had pending retakes. Some of us said no, this can’t happen, and they were later removed,” said the source.
Efforts to get a comment from the principal Chuss, Prof Edward Kirumira, were futile as calls to his known phone numbers went unanswered and his office was closed, but checking on the notice boards, the results were indeed not there.
At Makerere University, a student gets a retake when they fail to score 50 per cent and above in any exam.
Abbey Kizito Abasi, the GRC School of Social Sciences confirmed that the results haven’t been released yet but said he will contact the responsible people to see a way forward. “At least I hope they will be released in November,” he added.
But the insider source also cautioned students set to graduate in January about the impeding danger of changed and lost marks.
“In senate, marks are changed now and again. A student who has a 48 per cent from the department ends up with an 84 per cent in that building [Senate]. Ghost students are allover that building. If one is to graduate now and they haven’t confirmed their results yet, they should get serious,” the source added.
At Makerere University, Political Science also falls under school of Social Sciences. In this department, the story isn’t any different, one student who preferred to to only be identified as Andrew told Campusbee that he actually missed Comparative Politics only test that was given two weeks to final exams, but was actually surprised when results were released and had an 80 per cent.
“I had actually prepared myself for a retake,” he said.
At Makerere, the issue of delayed results isn’t new, but some departments seem to go too far. For example, a student last semester was at loggerheads with the department of Sociology over her missing marks. The student reportedly found her script unmarked in a dustbin inside the lecturer’s office and the lecturer promised to mark the paper.
Students say that delayed release of results affects them in many ways. For instance, if results for first year take more than six months without being released, and one finds themselves with a retake, it means that the only chance they have is to resit the course unit in the final year because time for registering for it in second year will have passed.
Once this course unit is again failed, which is possible and very common, it means the student will not graduate and will have to pay full tuition for the next semester which will be another academic year to resit a single first-year paper.
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