The Students’ Representative Council of the Ghana Technology University College (GTUC) have given the management up to the close of day on Wednesday, April 17, 2019, to address various concerns students have raised on the campus concerning the treatments meted out to them.
The SRC in a strong-worded statement lamented what they described as unfair treatments they were subjected to by the management of the school over the past years.
The four present and past executives of the SRC who signed the statement said the SRC will be forced to grant the long-time request of students to demonstrate “as it is evident that, the University does not care about the welfare of students who happen to be major stakeholders of the university.”
“The Students Representative Council on this note realized the conscious efforts of management to treat students badly when there is the need for consideration and as such have decided to support our students in any way we can just to make GTUC a better place,” it added.
The statement of the SRC comes on the back of a demonstration staged by some students of the school on Tuesday night over the school’s decision to deny them the opportunity of writing their end-of-semester examinations because they owe fees, some of which was low as 30 pesewas.
“Some of us were sacked from the exam hall for owing 20 pesewas, 30 pesewas, 80 pesewas, 2 cedis, 10 cedis,” one of the demonstrators said.
Another demonstrator said they feel they are being shortchanged by the school as it lacks laboratories, working electric sockets and wi-fi service despite being a technology school.
“A whole technology school, we don’t have a lab, plugs are not working properly, our internet does not work properly. For two years, we have not done any practical of what we are being taught. We want them to come out and tell us why some of these things are not working. We have to learn in some classrooms in the dark because there is no power,” another demonstrator said.
The SRC in its statement said the management must as a matter of urgency make arrangement for the students who were denied the opportunity to write the exams to do so as soon as possible.
It also asked for “a compensated ‘A’ and GHc200 to each course pending be given to students who still have ‘I’ from last academic year. This is practical as students pay penalties when they owe fees.”
They are also demanding that the financial statement of every student be emailed to them.