More than 600 students from KTU are urging management to review its decision on deferment

More than 600 students enrolled at Kumasi Technical University are making an appeal to the university’s administration to reconsider their decision to require them to defer their academic programs due to their failure to complete course registration.

A total of 648 students who haven’t completed course registration are currently unable to take part in the ongoing end-of-semester examinations, leading to an automatic deferral of their courses.

Although these affected students acknowledge their failure to meet the registration deadlines, they are appealing to the university for leniency.

“I paid the fees late and I wasn’t able to do the registration. The day we were writing the exams, they said it was a deadline, we didn’t see any notice. After paying the fees, we were asked to pay the penalty which was GH¢100, we were told to go to IT for registration, we were told they had closed registration when we reached there. We reported to the registrar and he told us that there was nothing he can do about it. They later said they will have a meeting and get back to us, they later told us that we have to defer.”

On the university’s side, the management clarified that the Academic Board of the university set various registration deadlines for the students. The Acting University Relations Officer, Joshua Appiah, addressed the situation, stating, “Students are supposed to register, and the university will know the number of students who have registered. This semester, that’s the 2nd semester of the 2022/2023 academic year, the registration period was for 2 weeks, which ended May 29. By May 24, the university sent a notice reminding them to register.

He continued, “After the deadline of May 29, there was an extension to June 5, with a penalty for those who haven’t registered to do so and pay a penalty to register. After June 5, there was another extension for them to register. It even went on further to June and July, the SRC even came to plead with management, even though the time elapsed. The final date was up to August 3”

Appiah debunked the claim of more than 2,000 affected students, confirming that approximately 648 students are currently affected, and even that number could be lower. He clarified that deferring enrollment doesn’t result in a loss of fees, and deferred students can resume their studies in the following semester. He confirmed that no students have been expelled from the university.

Source – citinewsroom.com