BULAWAYO - Scores of students from Bulawayo Polytechnic who wrote their final examinations last year have been left stranded after the institution withheld their results for failing to pay fees. In separate interviews the students said their careers had been jeopardised after they failed to get their results.
I really do not know what do now after failing to get my results because I owed the college about US$370 that they say I should pay for me to get the results, said a Business Studies student, Isaac Sibanda.
The paper also heard that at Harare Polytechnic many students have also failed to get their results on the same grounds. One student from the capital expressed disappointment at the institutions stance as some of them had already missed a deadline for re-writing the exam.
If I have failed some of the course subjects the deadline for registering for a re-write was today (last Friday), but we have already missed it, said Chipo Chitongo from Harare Polytechnic.
She added that if the deadline was not extended and there was a possibility that those who would have failed will have to write in November.
The students have called on the Government to intervene.
We are calling on the Government to assist us so that we will be able to access the results and pay what ever amount we owe the college later, said Chitongo.
Efforts by this paper to get a comment from the Bulawayo Polytechnic principal were fruitless. When contacted for comment the Deputy Minister of Higher and Tertiary Education, Senator Addington Lutho Tapela, said the Government clearly stipulates that any student who is on a cadetship should be given their results. He, however, added that those who were not on a cadetship should pay their outstanding fees before their results can be released.
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