As a UG student, I feel as though my rights are being affected

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Dear Editor,

As a student, I feel as though my rights are being affected – 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 Cavehill 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 year students will have to learn three months material in two months because the date of exams cannot be postponed by the UG Administration. They are tied to the dates set by UWI Cavehill Campus.

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.

Nicholas Carryl

Final Year Law Student, UG

 

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