Kabale NTC students petition government over their results

The student teachers through their leaders headed by the guild president Kwarisima Joshua want the parliament and the ministry of Education and Sports to compel the management of the institute to release their results and graduate them.

The students claim they were admitted to the college as diploma students to study for only two years but to their dismay they are seeing a diploma taking almost five years like a medical course.

“ we joined this college from 2019- 2021 hoping to study for two years, but we got discouraged after realising that even after the stipulated years, the administration has deliberately declined to give us results and graduate us as teachers of secondary schools,”Kwarisiima explained.

Meanwhile he added that despite several requests to the administration, all in vain adding that although Covid-19 affected them to certain extent by now they expected to have graduated.

Kwarisiima further said that given the current teacher policy requiring all teachers to acquire degrees students are now stuck in their thoughts as they cannot present any document to enhance their further upgrading.

However this comes at a time when the ministry of Education and Sports has just amended the teacher policy to incorporate the need for all teachers to upgrade up to a degree level.

However the vice guild president Shallon Ntubgire said that despite several reminders and pleas to the school administration to release the results everything has fallen on deaf hears.

“We want the responsible bodies to act because people like me who teach Swahili,they are frustrating us yet the government has just started promoting Swahili as a language,” she said.

Meanwhile the Buyaga West MP Hon Barnabas Tinkasimire claimed the education sector is faced with many problems but vowed to support those who are aggrieved with the bad system.

He further called upon the Education and Sports ministry to punish any errant administrators whose interests was to make students to suffer.

Annet Komunda the principal NTC Kabale when interviewed denied having registered complaints from students meanwhile she said the institute could have handled it if it had been registered.

She however said since the students claim to have sat for exams from Kyambogo University they should contact the Kyambogo University to address the matter.

Meanwhile Prof.Eli Katunguka Rwakishaya the vice Chancellor of Kyambogo University while responding to a call from the deputy chairperson of the committee on Education and Sports Abigaba about the issue admitted the NTC being an affiliate of Kyambogo University and made it clear that all their affiliates to pay for subscription and pay money to process the student exams and results to allow the graduation to take place.

Meanwhile the guild president in his response said the students paid all the dues to the school administration with no one having a single balance.