Bindura varsity students cry foul over de-registration

HUNDREDS of Bindura University of Science Education students yesterday approached the Higher and Tertiary Education ministry in Harare claiming the institution wanted to bar them from proceeding with their studies until they passed modules they had failed.

The students, who were on industrial internship until the opening of the new semester in August, said they were shocked when the university told them that as part of the new regulations — under ordinance section 2 of 2015 to 2017 — they would have to de-register and return only after passing the failed modules.

Students who had gathered at the ministry’s offices in the morning said they did not receive prior communication regarding the new decree as the old rules allowed them to continue with their studies and rewrite failed subjects.

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