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<\/p>\nSome students of Accra Technical University, including final year students, on Monday protested against a decision by the institution to disallow them entry into the examination hall over the late payment of fees.<\/p>\n
According to them, 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
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They are thus\u00a0calling on the authorities to allow them write the exams.<\/p>\n
One of the affected students complained to Citi News<\/strong> that \u201cwe were given a deadline to register on May 25, and the date was a public holiday, the banks were not working.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThis school had made it clear to us that they don\u2019t receive physical cash unless banker’s draft. So we came here on Friday with our drafts and they refused to key\u00a0us into the system claiming that 25th<\/sup> May was the deadline. They were also claiming that they were here on the said deadline but they didn\u2019t come. Even if you work for a half day it should be from 9am to 12pm. And it even rained on that 25th<\/sup> May. They are refusing us, meanwhile we\u2019ve paid our fees and they are telling us to defer for a whole year. It\u2019s not fair. They should come and explain to us. We\u2019ve been deprived of a paper,\u201d the student lamented.<\/p>\n Another student who also insisted that she had paid her fees in full at the bank, was turned\u00a0away from writing the exams because he had not been registered.<\/p>\n \u201cI was on Obuasi Municipal Assembly common fund scholarship. When I gained admission, the Assembly gave me a cheque of GHc1,000 and a letter attached to the cheque that they will pay the arrears later, and the school accepted the letter. I realized that my name wasn\u2019t part of those who were cleared to write the exams and when I inquired, the school said they can\u2019t wait for the rest of the cheque from the Assembly,\u201d another aggrieved student lamented.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Some students of Accra Technical University, including final year students, on Monday protested against a decision by the institution to disallow them entry into the examination hall over the late payment of fees. According to them, even though the University extended the initial deadline of April 7 to May 25, with a GhC50 penalty, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,11],"tags":[7541,788,3],"yoast_head":"\n![\"students-of-accra-technical-university-3\"](\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/students-of-accra-technical-university-3.jpg\")
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