{"id":323802,"date":"2017-05-30T17:20:39","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T17:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=323802"},"modified":"2017-05-30T17:20:39","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T17:20:39","slug":"accra-technical-university-embattled-students-to-write-exams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=323802","title":{"rendered":"Accra Technical University: Embattled students to write exams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Students of <a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/05\/29\/accra-technical-university-students-blocked-from-writing-exams-over-fees\/\"><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong>Accra Technical University<\/strong><\/span><\/a> who were disallowed from writing their exams over late payment of fees have been given a second chance to do so.<\/p>\n<p>The school\u2019s authority has agreed to fix a new date for them to take their\u00a0papers.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;Hg4K326vwq7pBS6oa6y5RpSUrFhWagLE&#8221;]Some students of the school, including those in their final year, staged a protest on Monday against a decision by the institution to disallow them entry into the examination hall over the late payment of fees.<\/p>\n<p>They said even though the University extended the initial deadline of April 7 to May 25, with a GhC50 penalty, the said day was a holiday and most banks were closed hence their inability to pay their balance on time.<\/p>\n<p>The school\u2019s management which has not publicly reacted to the issue insists that the students failed to comply with the directive to pay their fees on the set date.<\/p>\n<p>But the President of the Students\u2019 Representative Council (SRC) of the school, Peter Kumordzie, told <strong>Citi News<\/strong> on Tuesday that the school has softened its stance on the matter, and will now allow the affected students write their exams.<\/p>\n<p>He noted however that, students who paid their fees after the deadline will be charged to pay a penalty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve resolved it; and students will now take their exams. Those who have not paid their fees yet will pay a penalty and take their exams subsequently. They will organize a special exam for them and it will be just like the regular exams. So management is taking care of that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Caleb Kudah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students of Accra Technical University who were disallowed from writing their exams over late payment of fees have been given a second chance to do so. The school\u2019s authority has agreed to fix a new date for them to take their\u00a0papers. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;Hg4K326vwq7pBS6oa6y5RpSUrFhWagLE&#8221;]Some students of the school, including those in their final year, staged a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[7593,788,3],"class_list":["post-323802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","tag-accra-polytechnic","tag-accra-technical-university","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=323802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=323802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=323802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=323802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}