Students Fail To Return to University Due To High Fees
The Great Zimbabwe University (GZU) failed to open on Monday as students shunned the high fees.
“We can not go back to college this semester when we are not able to pay the fees for the last semester. We could not manage to get our results because they were suppressed after we had not managed to pay full tuition fees,” said one of the students who spoke to RadioVOP.
The university is demanding at least US$ 300 from students for the second semester.
The University Vice Chancellor Professor Obert Maravanyika said: “This is a national problem. Students are having difficulties in raising their fees all over the country. We are not an exception but we just encourage all our students to come and register so that they would be able to attend lectures. I can not conclude that students have already failed, I know they are coming.”
“We can not teach because there are almost five percent of the students here. If they do not reduce the fees, then there will be no learning in the near future,” said one of the lecturers.