Source:educationweb.com.gh
The Students Representative Council of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology after KNUST management deferred students over their inability to settle their tuition fees has said the deferment can be reverted.
Authorities of the Kumasi-based university early this week sent messages to some students of the Science and Technology institution indicating their courses have been deferred over non-payment of academic user fees.
“Dear student, your programme has been deferred as you have not met the minimum requirement of the KNUST fees credit and debt management policy. Thank you,” a message by the management to an affected student stated.
A spokesperson for KNUST, Dr Daniel Norris Bekoe in an interview with the Daily Graphic newspaper said the prospective students deferred represents 8% of the entire university student population for the 2022 academic year.
Giving reasons why some students were unable to meet the payment deadline, the spokesman said some of the affected students invested their fees in many businesses including online hailing taxi services, betting and bakery.
But, the Science university’s SRC in a communique copied to EducationWeb said a help desk has been set up at the office of the Dean of students to assist affected students who have received messages or notice of deferral.
According to the SRC, students who paid immediately after the deadline, beneficiaries of the SRC KBN and KNUST bursary and any other student who received the deferral notice out of technical hitches are to visit the help desk.
“These categories of students are to visit the help desk with receipt of payment /award of scholarship to help revert from the deferral,” the Technology University Students Representative Council (SRC) noted on April 20, 2022.
2380 shortlisted beneficiaries of the SRC KBN and KNUST Bursary and successful applicants of the SRC financial aid scheme the Council has said shall have their account credited by Monday, April 25, 2022, to help revert the deferral
