By GIDEON NYENDWA
FORMER students at Fairview College in Lusaka have expressed concern over delays to award them their certificates after completing a three-year diploma programme.
The students who did not want to be identified for fear of being victimised in an interview that for the past three years, college management had not issued out diplomas despite students completing their training.
But when contacted for comment, a management representative, Mr Andrew Chola said the students were just misguided because the University of Zambia to which the college was affiliated had not yet completed the grading and moderating of results.
Mr Chola said that there was no way the students could graduate when the grading process was not yet done.
He also said that the aggrieved students were just acting under the influence of the opponents of the college who had been labouring for a long time to drag the name of the college in the mud.
Mr Chola said there was a group of lecturers who broke away from the college and they had been trying to take the school from him.
But the aggrieved students said that the time for their graduation was long overdue and they were missing employment opportunities because they had no proof to show that they had undergone tertiary education.
The students said that the entire 2018 intake had not graduated and their results had been withheld.
The students narrated that efforts to try and talk to management had always resulted in them being threatened.
They also said they had been writing to the Ministry of Education to come to their aid but they had not gotten any response since August 2021.
Ex Fairview College students cry foul over delayed certificates
