UNIVERSITY OF MONEY???????????????, U.G CATASTROPHIC UPWARD FEES ADJUSTMENT

I simply can’t come to terms with the apparently ridiculous and preposterous increment in the University of Ghana Fees. The authorities had told us bluntly that increment per year is 10% but as it turns out, the fees had been increased by over some 30%.

Most of us had seriously thought that a change in administration of the V.C would have culminated into a decreasing pressure on parents and students in relation to school fees. It’s however disheartening and incomprehensible the kinds of obnoxious and repugnant increment that had been effected.

I don’t want to subject the University authorities with an avalanche of disgust and disdain without the Government having a fair share of the blame. Indeed if the explanations of the University authorities is anything to go by, stating government apathy towards subsidizing fees, then one could deductively conclude that the Government had proved inefficient and invariably ineffective in advancing tertiary education.

Trying to understand the university authorities make me sick….. The first instance of sheer disregard to students is the university’s inability to give us a bill when we vacated and I guess all this was done to ensure that they factor in all sought of implausible items culminating into a sky rocketing fees, which I think is indeed outrageously exorbitant.

When the fees were finally released, I saw clearly a statement indicating that 50% of the fees should be paid before the first semester and the remainder in the second semester. When the SRC registered their displeasure about the insensitive hike in the school fees, the university conveniently and perhaps mischievously highlighted the flexibility of Payment of the fees, indicating a 50: 50% per semester payment, creating an erroneous impression that the flexibility was in response to the obvious agitation by students.

These guys are really annoying!!!!!!!! After increasing the fees so much, they even have the impetus and audacity to direct us to have registered by the 5^th of August. I don’t think this is fair to students by any standards, it’s quite despotic on the part of the authorities to be meting out this kinds of treatments to the studentship.

If these trends should continue, then I wouldn’t be startled if in the near future, we are asked to even pay our fees in dollars.

Well students should in any case do well to pay their fees promptly anyways because I don’t think the University would tolerate any default especially when there is some atom of flexibility in it, considering how insensitive they are sometimes(not always).

I think it’s elusive for the university to try to play pranks on us…waiting for us so long and then astronomically increasing the fees.

With such a malicious school fees increment, I hope the lecturers would eschew their incessant late comings and accept the fact that we pay for what we get and if I say pay, I mean we pay very well.

Well, the University did some good things though, ensuring a shift of paradigm in initially overcrowded and filthy university halls into what I expect to be significantly better. This doesn’t go without some few misgivings I have about the implementation of this policy….. but I will just hold it.

For me, I think the increment of school fees is an outright wickedness and a gradual scheme to cut short the education of those who might default. It is a wicked and inconsiderate move, which I utterly condemn, regardless of whether it was caused by the government or not.

My conclusion about this treacherous “upward adjustment” is that we would pay the money, “ceteris Paribus”, but the authorities should be conscious of providing impeccable and effective service to us the students. And I don’t think we would tolerate any malfunctioning devices in our halls and any apathetic demeanor of any lecturer. “We ain’t gonna tolerate any arrant balderdash this time”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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