THE National University of Science and Technology (Nust) Students’ Representative Council (SRC) is engaging the institution’s administration on the feasibility of sitting for examinations next week in light of the political situation in the country.
BY TALENT GUMPO
This comes after University of Zimbabwe (UZ) students refused to write examinations calling for former President Robert Mugabe to step down and demanding that the university recalls his wife’s doctorate degree which they say was issued clandestinely.
In a statement, SRC spokesperson Innocent Dombo said they held a meeting with students to reach a consensus on whether to write exams or to postpone them after some raised safety concern issues.
“There is tension in the country and as the academia, we need to see things as they are and not as they should be. There are so many rumours circulating that threaten us in the immediate future. This problem is not confined to one city, but affects the nation at large,” the statement read.
Dombo said they were in dialogue to come up with solutions and conditions that would address the effects of the psychological violence and emotional imbalance currently affecting students.
“Students have been affected psychologically and emotionally by the events currently taking place in the country. Most students are from outside Bulawayo and they are worried about their parents and families as we all know, these times are unpredictable,” he said. He said the move was divorced from what was happening at UZ and was not being used as a platform to express any political position.
“This is not an attempt at imitating what is happening at any other institutions. We are looking for solutions to our own problems,” he said.
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Nust spokesperson Felix Moyo urged students to stick to the original examination timetable.
“We encourage students to observe and follow the examination timetables. They have been learning and they know they must write examinations to close the semester, they must follow that. We are not going to be postponing the exams,” he said.
