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Student Reaction to Industrial Dispute at UG

Feb 11, 2015 Letters

Dear Editor,
As a student, I feel as though the current industrial dispute at the University of Guyana between Staff and Administration is adversely affecting my rights. My right to education and my right to benefit from the services I have paid for. Both Staff and Administration are directly benefiting from my tuition fee. I believe that they are therefore under a moral and legal obligation to ensure that I benefit from the services I have paid for.
As a law student, I am familiar with the cries of other law students. Some fellow law students share my view, that delay of the resumption of all classes will negatively affect their immediate ability to complete the programme on time, their careers and future plans.  Every year in the law programme may be seriously affected.
First year exams are set by UWI Cave Hill Campus. The UG administration has no say in the date of those exams. Hypothetically, if the dispute takes a month to be resolved, that would mean that the first years will have to learn three months material in two months because the date of exams cannot be postponed by the UG Administration.
Third year exam dates are set by UG Administration. Hypothetically, if the dispute takes a month to be resolved, the Administration could postpone the exams a month so the students have the full amount of time to prepare. The issue is that those who wish to apply for entry to any regional law school, need final semester grades to do so.
They are therefore in danger of missing the deadline for submission of final semester grades. Consequently, they would have to wait until the application period reopens next year. Further, the 25 limited spaces that are offered will, in 2016, then be competed for by two batches of law students instead of one batch.
Other final year students across campus may be similarly affected as it relates to applications for further education. If the semester is pushed back and the grades are released proportionately later; they are in danger of missing the application deadlines. Also affected are students who would have entered into commitments during the June-August period when they would have expected to be away from UG.
I have illustrated the personal perspective of a student from the faculty of law. I hope that other students similarly exercise their right to express their perspectives on how the current industrial dispute is affecting students’ right to education and their right to benefit from services that they are paying for.
Nicholas Carryl

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