An atmosphere of uncertainty looms
at Technical School of Agriculture-TSA, Nkambe as final year students say plans
by the school administration to frustrated them will meet stiff resistant. It
is alleged that the students were told to pay an additional FCFA 50.000 if not
they will not write the MINADER end of course examination. One student who
preferred not to be named said that they would prefer to die than pay the extra
FCFA 50.000 which they claim were not told. “If there is an increase in our
tuition, MINADER should inform us, we were not told”, he emphasized.
It should be recalled that the
reputation of TSA Nkambe has been taken into the mud by its present management.
Of late, the puff at TSA Nkambe we gathered reached the point that the school
administration could only get solace thanks to the intervention of the Senior
Divisional Officer for Donga Mantung Division. This was when pedagogic staff of
the school issued a letter, decrying the nonpayment of allowances and later took
to the street to stage a peaceful protest march to the SDO's office to express
their grievances.
Reasons for the falling standards of
training at TSA Nkambe have attracted much public discussions recently to the
point that diverse opinions have questioned whether the management was up to
the task. Yet, TSA Nkambe is going down into the doldrums again as an imminent strike
action looms large. Though students have
been silent over the absence of training instruments such as poultry farms, etc
another school of thought holds that the sky rocket problem is indicative of
administrative lapses and failure on the part of management. The bad news
follows other indications that teaching and learning standards at TSA Nkambe
are slipping when measured against others. Other commentators suggested that
the high rate of disorder and trickery moves is a severe blow to Government and
bad news for the youths who have passed through the school. "How can Donga
Mantung hope to compete economically if our young people are not as well-trained
as those in other places? An authoritative voice questioned.
The question many have been asking on the
growing anguish at TSA Nkambe is whether what was prescribed as school fees has
been respected? Given that some students were brandishing receipts showing that
they had completed their fees. “This is my receipt. It shows I my paid all my
fees but today July 18, 2016 I am being told to pay FCFA 50.000 tomorrow before
I write MINADER Exams”, one female student argued in anger. When News Breaks Out, We Break In. (The 2014 Bloggies Finalist)
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