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
https://swazimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2017/09/protests-close-swaziland-university.html
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