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Students are still being barred from colleges and universities
Zimbabwe National Students Union (ZINASU) (Mugwadi)
April 06, 2010

The Minister of Higher and Tertiary Education Stan Mudenge is on record saying no student shall be barred from college or university for failing to pay tuition fees. ZINASU dismisses this as a deliberate and well calculated subversion of the truth designed to appease students into unfound docility. Thousands of students in polytechnic and teacher's colleges are still failing to access their 2009 examination results.

On Monday colleges commenced a new term, but college authorities in particular at Harare, Mutare, Masvingo and Kwekwe polytechnic colleges students who have not paid their tuition fees are being barred from lecturers. The Midlands State University recently threatened to bar all students who are yet to pay their tuition fees from sitting for their end of semester examinations.

In his May Day speech the Zimbabwe National Students Union President Tafadzwa Mugwadi gave the government an ultimatum of twenty-one days to deal with the fees issue. Prime Minister Tsvangirai equally promised to look into the fees crisis.

ZINASU orders Minister Mudenge to desist from making utterances which are not in tandem with reality. Instead of searching for alternatives he aggravates our plight and misery by his statements. ZINASU dismisses government excuses on why it fails to subsidize our education system when it is able to fund the students studying at Fort hare and other universities in South Africa.ZINASU also believes the crisis in the education sector now reaching its zenith under the inclusive government emanates from misplacement and misdirection of priorities and resources by the government and that has to change.

ZINASU urges the Prime Minister to stick to his words realizing the importance of time in this critical issue.

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