PORT HARCOURT— Rivers State House of Assembly has intervened in the crisis rocking Rivers State University of Science and Technology, RSUST, Port Harcourt, following the alleged hard stance of the management of the university over late tuition fees payment by students.
It will be recalled that tension had risen when the school authorities insisted that students who defaulted in early payment of school fees would repeat the 2011/2012 academic session to deter growing preference for late payment by the students.
Following last Thursday’s protest by the students, the state House of Assembly had called for calm, assuring of its resolve to settle the matter amicably.
Chairman, House Committee on Education of the state Assembly, Mr. Austin Ngor, told Vanguard, weekend, that appreciable progress had been made in resolving the matter.
A meeting was hosted by the Vice Chancellor of the university, Prof. Barineme Fakae and other top management with leader of the House, Mr. Chidi Lloyd, who led a delegation of lawmakers.
Ngor said: “Already, management has set up a committee to revisit the matter. We also resolved to get all affected students listed and their complaints categorised, so that management could open its registration portal on its website for those with genuine cases to register and get their results to avoid having some students repeating an entire session.
“Not all the students were satisfied with the outcome of the meeting. Some needed to hear a quick fix measure, like assuring that the registration site had been opened with immediate effect, but I think we can build on it gradually to resolved the matter in the interest of the students.”
Source: Vanguard