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Hundreds of students at the Accra Technical University, formerly Accra Polytechnic, have been sacked from writing their exams following their failure to pay a fine before a deadline last Thursday.<\/p>\n
The 100 cedis fine was slapped on the students after they failed to pay the semester’s tuition fee of about GHS1,700 on time.<\/p>\n
An enraged Accountancy student David told Myjoyonline.com<\/b> about 400 students were affected by the directive to bar the students from sitting the exams.<\/p>\n
He complained, the notice stating the deadline was not sufficiently\u00a0circulated.<\/p>\n
‘I found it last Tuesday behind the door of the finance office,’ he said. In a race against time, David who says he personally funds his education lamented, ‘believe you me, it is hard to come by money these days.’<\/p>\n
Much to his dismay, he said the Thursday deadline happened to be the African Union Day, a statutory public holiday.<\/p>\n
Workers in the university and in the banks were therefore unavailable to facilitate the payment of the fine, leaving the students seething with frustration.<\/p>\n
A first-year student, 22-year old Vivian,\u00a0said she had 48hours to raise money after she first read the notice last Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The student of Hotel Catering and Management said she borrowed 522 cedis which is the remainder of her fees and also borrowed the extra 100 cedis for the\u00a0penalty.<\/p>\n
She had hoped the deadline would have been extended by an extra day in view of the impracticality of paying the money on Thursday.<\/p>\n
She says she was left devastated after an invigilator told her, she was not part of the list of first-year students who qualified to write the examination.<\/p>\n
The students say they have been told, they would have to defer their courses if they are unable to sit this semester’s examination.<\/p>\n
Efforts to obtain a response from authorities at the Technical University are yet to yield results.<\/p>\n
Expect more…<\/p>\n
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