UNISA ROW
Students blame materials backlog on tender gone wrong
Unisa rejects the allegation, but will not identify the contractor
Unisa’s information technology tender, dogged by allegations of corruption, has been blamed for a backlog in issuing study materials to students. The university is the country’s largest tertiary institution providing services for nearly 400,000 students using traditional, blended and distance-learning methods. Unisa last week blamed a delay in delivering study materials to students on an unexpected increase in student registration numbers for the 2017 academic year. A total of 25,848 students are affected by 95 sets of study materials being out of stock. Ordinarily, students would receive study materials within 10 days of registration, according to the student representative council (SRC), which has pinned the university’s shortcomings on an information technology tender gone wrong. SRC national postgraduate officer Wadzanai Mazhetese said the foreign company with which the university had forged a deal and which failed to deliver an upgraded information technology system, was never ...
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