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DIT students boycott classes to press for exam results
2006-01-19 09:05:18
By Pastory Nguvu
More than 300 students at the Dar es Salaam Institute of Technology (DIT) are boycotting classes to press the management to release their end of year examination results.
Speaking to The Guardian yesterday, the DIT students’ president Joseph Ghati said that since the commencement of the new academic year, the results for some the examinations they did last year had not been released.
’Normally, all results are given at the same time.
As I speak to you, third year ADE students who are pursuing Civil Engineering have not received their results for Soil Mechanics, Engineering Economics and Concrete and Construction Engineering six weeks after we opened,’ said Ghati.
He said second year students studying Building Engineering have also not been given the results of two subjects, eight weeks since they started their second.
He said that despite the students’ effort to get an explanation from the management on why the results were being withheld, the management has not been forthcoming with concrete answers.
’Students cannot go on with their studies without knowing what they scored in previous examinations. They are now sitting for other tests without knowing the results of past examinations,’ said Ghati.
Reached for comment, DIT Principal Public Relations Officer for Aman Kakana said the students’ demands were baseless.
Kakana said that students were aware of why the management was withholding the results they want to be given. He declined to give the reason.
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