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Two students from the University of Ghana have taken steps to request the school to reimburse part of their tuition and residential fees paid during the 2019/2020 academic year in the midst of school closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
In a short message sent on May 14, 2020 and distributed on social media with an attached Google forms link inviting the University’s general student population to sign the petition to add strong support to the petition to be submitted to the University and relevant stakeholders to consider reimbursing fees to students
The main petitioners, Kojo Danquah, a first-year master’s degree student in public administration from the Graduate School and Sampson Tagbor, a 300-level student from the Business School, among other reasons, stated that “the academic enrollment and residency agreement of the University of Ghana had with students prior to admission and registration depend on the invaluable face-to-face delivery of lectures by faculty, social contact and academic interactions between students, and direct access to the facilities of the University, such as science laboratories, computer laboratories, WiFi system, sports fields, the Library System equipped with Woo, which includes the departmental libraries and Junior Common Rooms (JCR), among others, to which students no longer they are guaranteed access under the E-Learning arrangements for the rest of the semester (academic year) “._
One of the main petitioners, Kojo Danquah added in a separate compromise when contacted that, “the poor quality of the lectures precipitated by the poor stability of the Internet, the inability to involve teachers directly and the lack of classes in the laboratory they were sufficient reasons for the management to have reflected on a considerable reduction in enrollment rates after the announcement of the E-Learning policy. ” _
Sampson Tagbor is also quoted in a WhatsApp group commitment when he said that _ “it is silent that the university has asked students to vacate the residential facilities and, subsequently, ordered them to return for their belongings when we had barely passed half of the semester at these facilities, you will want to think that all well-intentioned universities like ours, with the greatest concern for their students, would have been arranging for a partial refund of fees, the case is different since our PRO VC for academic and Students were informed by Radio Univers saying the opposite. It completely surpasses one’s imagination. ”
As petitioners embark on the collection of signatories to support their request to the University and relevant stakeholders, we will be on the lookout for this new development.
Source: Josephine Acheampomaa /[email protected]
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