The Ghana Institute of Journalism (GIJ) has been shut down temporarily following students agitation over a policy demanding full payment of school fees and online registration as a prerequisite to writing end of semester examinations.
Confusion erupted on campus Sunday as authorities denied students access to examination centres over the online registration.
Campus sources said the students who were prevented from writing the exams included those who have paid their fees in full and those who had paid at least 80% of their fees but could not complete an online registration.
The police had to be called in to restore order. The rest of the papers have been placed on ice until further notice from authorities.
The students nonetheless had completed a manual registration which had been acknowledged by their lecturers and other authorities at the school ahead of Sunday’s examination
Many of the students, according to reports, were unable to complete the E-registration because of its complex nature.
The students who have been affected by the decision are pointing accusing fingers at the new rector of the school, who they claim ordered for them to be locked out of the exam hall.
On Saturday, scores of students were barred from taking part in the ongoing end of semester exams for failing to fully pay their fees.
Students are required to pay 80 percent of fees but that was changed suddenly without prior knowledge of the students.
Tempers run wild on the campus, according to the source as the angry students including a mother and her daughter were demanding access to the exams hall.
“I have paid almost all my fees and I am left with just 100 cedis but they prevented me from writing,” an affected student told the media.
“We promised to pay next semester but they said they won’t allow us to write,” said another.