Over 600 Kumasi Technical University (KTU) students have petitioned the university’s administration to recind its decision to postpone their programs due to their inability to register for their classes.
A total of 648 students who have not registered for their courses will be deferred from the ongoing end-of-semester assessment.
Despite admitting their failure to register for the courses, the impacted students are asking the University’s administration to temper punishment with kindness.
“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, 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, 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, administration claims that the University’s Academic Board established multiple deadlines for students to register for classes.
Acting University Relations officer for the Kumasi Technical University, Joshua Appiah, in an interview with the media, “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 May 29 deadline, the deadline was extended to June 5, with a penalty for individuals who had not registered to do so and pay a penalty to register. There was another extension for them to register after June 5. It even continued into June and July, when the SRC came to plead with management despite the passage of time. The deadline was set for August 3.”
He refuted media reports that the number of students affected exceeded 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”.
