Massive protest over high tuition fee, planned by students at Enugu State University. Unless the state administration accedes to their req...
Massive protest over high tuition fee, planned by students at Enugu State University.
Unless the state administration accedes to their requests, the students at the Enugu State University of Science and Technology plan to stage a protest on Tuesday.
The protest, according to a school student who contacted with our reporters on Monday, is meant to support the demands made by the Students' Union Governments following their most recent meeting.
The source claims that the Enugu state-owned school has lost its initial mandate of setting the pace for scientific growth and technological advancement in the South-East area since it has been unnecessary for years.
The organizer requested that students gather in masse at the MTN Stand on Tuesday morning by 8am for the peaceful protest match with the slogan: "We are students, not money making machines."
Flyers that were posted on social media were described by students as "disheartening that as students will be caused to have extra years and many forced to give up on continuing their studies because of outrageous fees."
Indignant students referred to the university's vice chancellor as "a dream killer" and insisted that ESUT was not a private institution because of the high and out-of-control prices.
Students are organizing various protests because of the Vice Chancellor, and he won't be able to manage them once they get going, a source claimed. "Use of military force against the students will only result in casualties."
The university insisted that only students who had paid their tuition and had their identity cards with them at the time of the exam be allowed to take it in an internal memo from the chairman of the examination monitoring committee to department heads dated May 4, 2023 with the reference numbers No. ESUT/EMC/2023/01 and "First Semester 2023 Examination Monitoring Guide."
The memo, which was partially signed by the committee's chairman, stated: "Academic staff and students are now reminded of the under listed guidelines as the first semester examinations begin on Tuesday, May 9, 2023:
"All invegilators and examiners should communicate with the department heads to make sure that only legitimate university students who have paid their tuition and have their ID cards are permitted to take the examination. Every student is required to have their ID on them.
Students who can provide proof of their tuition payments but whose names do not appear on the ICT-list of paid students may be permitted to take a test. The scripts of these pupils must be maintained separate and with the faculty dean. Such scripts must not be marked by the Lecturer until their claim is verified.
"The practice of submitting a non-ICT list that includes the outcomes of fees defaulters is no longer permitted as this has caused many students to mismanage their school fees," the statement reads. Additionally, any additional results utilized in the computation of students' results will not be posted to the university portal because only students whose names appear in the ICT-list are permitted to do so.
Students who don't pay their tuition after the portal closes shouldn't be permitted to take any university exams. Such students' scripts MUST NOT be marked when they knowingly take any exam. It states, in part, "Any lecturer who marks such scripts shall be reprimanded.
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