Students
at a college in Swaziland are being forced to pay E1,000 to get their
certificates and diplomas if they do not attend a graduation ceremony.
It is
reported this is to prevent a boycott at the Good Shepherd Nursing College
where students have been protesting about poor standards.
The Observer on Saturday newspaper in
Swaziland reported (4 November 2017), ‘The nursing students are alleged to have
been told by the college authorities in no uncertain terms that its either they
pay E350 or graduate in absentia but their transcripts and certificates will
cost them E1,000 (about US$70) when they collect them.’
In
Swaziland, seven in ten of the kingdom’s 1.3 million population have incomes of
less than US$2 a day.
The
graduation has already been postponed twice and is now scheduled for 17
November 2017.
The newspaper reported one student saying, ‘The institution must stop
treating students as children and treat them as sane people. Our life was
miserable in there, we did not even know who issues instructions as everyone
was doing as she/he pleases.’Another said, ‘We lacked learning material such as books until we left the institution, we were even told they cannot wait for us to leave the institution because we are troublesome.’
See also
PROTESTS
CLOSE SWAZILAND UNIVERSITY
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