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Technical University of Mombasa students leave for home following unrest
over accreditation of engineering courses in September last year. PHOTO
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By BENARD OGEMBO
More than 1,000 students pursuing engineering courses
at Egerton on Wednesday protested after the University served a notice
directing all of them to vacate the premises.
The circular seen by the Business Daily informed
the students that the university had closed the engineering departments
affected by the current stand-off between the varsity’s management board
and that of the Engineers Board of Kenya (EBK).
“The senate has deliberated and decided that all
students undertaking engineering programmes vacate the university by
2.30 pm until further notice,” read the notice signed by the Deputy
Registrar of Academic Affairs Prof Francis Ndiritu.
EBK did not accredit three programmes offered by the university on account that they did not meet the board’s requirements.
The students last week demonstrated faulting the EBK for prolonging accreditation of their studies.
The notice also read: “The university is in the
process of fast-tracking the process but students have insisted that
they will not attend classes until their grievances are addressed.”
The affected courses include Bachelor of Science in
Instrumentation and Control Engineering, Civil and Environmental
Engineering, and Industrial and Energy Engineering.
Student Union chairman Juma Fredrick blamed the institution for taking too long to clear the faculties with the regulator.
They vowed to ignore the management’s directive to go home and continue to abscond classes until the issue is resolved.
“We want to tell the university management that
unless the issue is addressed, it won’t be business as usual and we
won’t vacate the premise because we’ve paid full accommodation,” said
Fredrick.
Head of Faculty Congress Ms Manaal Abdalla said engineering students deserve quality education since it is costly to train.
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