Higher Education Minister Don Polye has called on the parents and guardians of students studying at the University of Natural Resources and Environment (UNRE) to tell their wards to stop the boycott of studies and return to classes.
Tell your students to have some maturity and be sensible as what they are doing is illogical and immature.
The university is a sacred institution where students learn knowledge and skills to enhance themselves to become better citizens and not a place where you will be used by others to fight for their private interests.
Polye
Polye urged that UNRE student leaders who had threatened mass withdrawals that it was a childish attitude and told them to focus on the most important task which was to complete their education.
All issues that you are trying to address have been address by me.
Minister Polye
Department of Higher Education, Research, Science and Technology secretary Fr Jan Czuba said students who wished to withdraw had to fill the withdrawal form, sign it and present it to the administration for approval.
We don’t have the power to stop you from studying and withdrawing, but there is a process and you will not be selected automatically to re-enroll the following year.
You will be accepted if there is space and you will have to pay K36,000 in full before enrollment, there will not be any subsidization.
Czuba
Czuba pointed out that students studying the climate change and engineering program who complained about course accreditation and being self-sponsored were fully supported by the HELP program.
The self-sponsor fee is K9,800 and HELP is K10,000 of which they received all the money to meet the university’s requirement for the last three years.
Jan Czuba
Polye emphasized that the new permanent council recently set after five years of interim would address all the management issues.
Polye also presented the university governance manual for governing bodies of all universities in the country to conduct themselves with set laws and regulations to address misconduct by university councils and managements.