The government yesterday declared that it will soon give its stand on the appeal of University of Dar es Salaam students who were suspended for allegedly organizing last years` student strikes.
Education and Vocational Training deputy minister Gaudentia Kabaka told the National Assembly in Dodoma that the government had started to review some of the Loans Board`s regulations which sparked off the student strikes.
Kabaka, who was responding to a question by legislator Mariam Kasembe (CCM- Special Seats), urged students to consult their university administration and discuss their problems instead of opting for demonstrations and strikes.
She added that by so doing they wasted valuable time outside classes, which would ultimately cause them to fail.
``This year students who were discontinued were 0.9 per cent, which is an improvement over the year 2006/07 when discontinued students were 2.5 per cent,`` Kabaka explained.
She said the government urged students to study hard and make use of their academic advisors.
Recently the government directed suspended students who failed to meet the readmission conditions to appeal for assistance to the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training.
Kabaka said the government had formed a committee to review the loans allocation system for students in institutions of higher learning, adding that the process would include evaluating the criteria which caused confusion to the students.
Kabaka said that strike could be among the causes that led to poor performance but the government was working hard to solve students’ problems.
In her basic question, Kasembe had wanted to know the reasons leading to mass failures by students and the number of discontinued students.
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