FUOYE Students
Deborah Tolu Kolawole
Medical and Pharmacy students at the Federal University, Oye-Ekiti, Ekiti State will have to pay N30,000 to resit any exam that they fail.
This was disclosed in a memo by the university, which was sighted by our correspondent on Monday.
The memo signed by the Registrar, Mufutau Ibrahim, said the varsity’s management fixed the exam resit fee at its meeting held on August 7, 2023.
The PUNCH Healthwise reports that a resit examination is when a student fails a test or examination in the first instance and has to rewrite the same on a rescheduled date.
The memo with Reference Number FUOYE/REG/MM/105/Vol3/409 and dated October 13, 2023, reads, “The university management, at its meeting held on 7th August 2023, considered and approved the request for students in the faculties of Pharmacy and Basic Medical Sciences to resit for examination starting from 200 Level and above.
“The management also approved that the examination re-sit fee shall be N30,000 only per course.”
Meanwhile, some students of the institution, who spoke with our correspondent on Monday, expressed concern over what they tagged high cost of resitting for an examination.
A 300-level pharmacy student, who spoke with our correspondent on the condition of anonymity said, “I was disturbed when I heard the news. Some of us have like three courses that we have to resit. That means that we have to pay like N90,000. Where does the school expect us to get the money? We need PUNCH newspapers to help us. The N30,000 per course is too much.”
Another student said, “I can’t even tell my parents this and I have four to write. I don’t even know what to do at the moment, maybe to give up on life. I know it’s my fault that I had below 50 in the exam but N30,000 is too much in this economy.”
No official at the school could be reached on the matter at the time of filing this report.
However, a student leader, who did not want his name in print, said efforts were being made to reach the school management on the matter.
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