UDS students up against management over ‘killer’ facility fees

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Students of the Navrongo campus of the University for Development Studies (UDS) are up in arms against management of the school.

The angry students accuse the management of inflating the cost of academic facility user fees and have threatened to embark on a demonstration if steps are not taken to effect a downward review.

They argue that the school authorities have doubled and in some cases tripled the fees, a situation they describe as unacceptable.

They say the fees being charged by the authorities is far more than what other tertiary institutions are charging.

President of the Students Representative Council (SRC) of UDS, Navrongo Campus, Raymond Otivi said  “It is on the academic facility user fee we are paying and we think that it has been inflated more than twice or three times what other universities in the country are paying and I have documents to prove that. Our students are poised that this year, they will do everything to have the situation addressed,”

In 2017, students of the Accra City campus of the University of Ghana also embarked on a similar protest against hikes in tuition fees.

They indicated that while business administration students at the City Campus were paying GHS3,234 for tuition fee, their colleagues on the main campus at Legon were charged GHS1,272.

 

 

Source: BestNewsGH.com

 

 


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Kennedy Mornah is an Award Winning Ghanaian Journalist with over two decades of experience in the Ghanaian Media landscape spanning the electronic, print and digital media. He is a Media Consultant, a Corporate MC, Radio and TV Host, Founder and Publisher of the Maritime and Transport Digest Newspaper, Businessman, a Go getter and an optimist. He has worked for renowned media organizations including Diamond Fm in Tamale, Luv Fm in Kumasi, Oman Fm in Accra and Starr Fm in Accra In 2017 he received the Reporter of the Year Award at the Ghana Shippers Awards in Accra, Ghana.

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