Varsity stance odd, puzzling

EDITOR — The open letter in your last Friday’s edition about a Great Zimbabwe University student who completed her attachment but cannot proceed to final year is very heartbreaking.

Being a lecturer myself (of course not at GZU) I find this matter odd and puzzling.

Surely, how can GZU allow a student to go on attachment, have lecturers follow up on her progress, assess her twice, make her do coursework, ask her to submit reports, liaise with her supervisors, receive her full fees and then say all this is null and void?

I smell a rat somewhere. Is this not one of those ways of ‘fixing’ vulnerable students?

If it is true I urge the GZU staff and SRC to come to the rescue of the female student. I am sure the vice chancellor is not aware of this puzzling decision — otherwise he would have stopped it.

However, What I want to say is that GZU should realize that there are too many students from different universities chasing very few attachment positions.

If GZU is going to defer students on some flimsy excuses it should not allow them to take up the few positions available. If they fill these positions they disadvantage other students from vibrant varsities.

Attachments should be put to good use and must be fully utilised.

An attachment should benefit both the student and his/her college. If a whole year is going to be regarded null and void, for whatever reason, then there is no point in having a student go through the process in the first place.

It is waste of time and resources and smacks of poor management. Alvin Gore, Gweru