The Ghana Institute of Journalism has canceled its ongoing exams for weekend students because of a clash between police and the students who have been accused of owing school fees.
The school drove away students who are deemed to owe school fees and were prevented from writing the exams yesterday, prompting them to protest the action by the school authorities today.
But the school authorities called in the police who met fierce resistance from the students as some of them really paid the fees but were unable to register through the school’s online portal which is said to be down for some time now.
The students who are mostly level 300 and 400 students have described the action of the school authorities as unfortunate.
This website is reliably informed that some of the students were prevented from writing the exams because they owed as low as 200 Ghana cedis from the previous semester, even though they have paid the fees in full and registered for the current semester.
Most of the students, this website gathers, are on students loan trust and pay their fees only when their monies are disbursed, but the school authorities refused to oblige them, insisting that they should go and borrow and pay the fees, so that when the students loan trust disburses their monies, then they can go and settle their indebtedness.
Many observers blame school authorities for the manner in which they handled the issue, given the fact that they could allow the students write the exams, and then they (School authorities) keep their results until the pay the fees before they release the results to them.
It is unclear when writing of the exams will resume as tension between the school authorities and the students is still quite volatile.
Source: BestNewsGH.com
