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Most deferred students misused their fees for betting, buying vehicles, and bakery – KNUST Management

The administration of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has cleared up its choice to ask north of 6,000 understudies to concede their courses.

They expressed that a portion of the impacted understudies is messing around with them.

As indicated by Dr. Daniel Norris Bekoe, the University’s Public Relations Officer, a few understudies have put their charges into adventures, for example, wagering, purchasing vehicles for online ride-hailing administrations, and pastry kitchen.

“The issue we have now is that various understudies are messing around with the University. For instance, they utilize their school expenses to purchase vehicles for Uber, others are utilizing it to set up pastry shops, and others are likewise involving it for wagering, and we have proof.”

“A few guardians have even sent us sound, where understudies have gotten the expenses yet have, would not pay or just exchanging with the cash.”
Dr. Bekoe expressed this on Joy FM’s Midday News in a meeting with Emefa Apawu on Wednesday.

Specialists of the KNUST had before given a delivery informing understudies who owe more than 70% of school charges by April 7, that they would be conceded consequently. Notwithstanding, the admonition didn’t take impact at that point.

As indicated by sources, understudies were permitted to participate in the mid-semester tests, which began on April 11.
The understudies who had unpaid debts to cover were hence made to concede their courses.

In any case, since insight about the issue broke, some Ghanaians have offered shifted viewpoints.
Yet, Dr. Bekoe demanded that the University’s activity is on the correct course.

He noticed that the issue of understudies not settling expenses has persevered throughout the long term; hence, the need to “apply the charges strategy this year which has been endorsed by the scholastic board, and it is required that as an undergrad understudy, you should enroll your courses toward the start of the semester and pay 70%.”

In the meantime, he said the University has now “given a window from February through March and April” for understudies with overdue debts to pay.

Source: http://xplonlinegh.com

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