As new year begins, universities are still finalising 2016 exams
As universities across the country prepare for the influx of new first-year students‚ some universities still need to finalise deferred and supplementary exams. Some students at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) have said that they have not been afforded the same access to lecturers and facilities as students who wrote their exams in November last year. Following student protests over several months‚ Wits last year allowed students who did not feel ready to defer their exams to January. Zamayirha Peter‚ Wits student representative council (SRC) academic officer‚ said she had been inundated with calls from students who had had issues writing deferred or supplementary exams. "The university opened on the 3rd of January‚ but when students arrived they couldn’t access some facilities such as labs and libraries‚" Peter said. She said the SRC had been faced with an "accommodation crisis" with students not being able to access residences. A third-year BCom accounting sciences stud...
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