More than 600 Kumasi Technical University (KsTU) students are pleading with the university administration to change its request that they postpone their programs after being unable to enrol for their classes.
648 students will have their courses automatically deferred because they have not registered for any of their classes and are therefore unable to take the current end-of-semester exam.
The impacted students acknowledge that they did not sign up for the classes, but they are asking the university administration to exercise some mercy.
“I paid the fees late, and I wasn’t able to do the registration. The day we were writing the exams, they said it was a deadline, but we didn’t see any notice. After paying the fees, we were asked to pay the penalty which was GH¢100, we were told to go to IT for registration, but we were told they had closed registration when we reached there. We reported to the registrar, and he told us that there was nothing he can do about it. They later said they will have a meeting and get back to us, they later told us that we have to defer.”
Meanwhile, management says the University’s Academic Board decided several deadlines issued to the students to register for their courses.
Acting University Relations officer for the Kumasi Technical University, Joshua Appiah, in an interview with Citi News said, “Students are supposed to register, and the university will know the number of students who have registered. This semester, that’s the 2nd semester of the 2022/2023 academic year, the registration period was for 2 weeks, which ended May 29. By May 24, the university sent a notice reminding them to register.
After the deadline of May 29, there was an extension to June 5, with a penalty for those who haven’t registered to do so and pay a penalty to register. After June 5, there was another extension for them to register. It even went on further to June and July, the SRC even came to plead with management, even though the time elapsed. The final date was up to August 3”.
He refuted assertions made by several media outlets that the number of impacted students exceeds 2,000.
“For now about 648 students are affected not 2,000 as speculated, even with the 648, it might be lesser than that. If you defer your money hasn’t been lost, you can still come back next semester to continue your education. Nobody has been deferred from the university”.
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