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Dishing out suspicious grades and certificates to undeserving students in certain departments is the order of the day. When the attention of the university authorities was drawn to this, by way of petition, the petitioners were sadly ignored.
Some lecturers and professors, according to sources, have expressed grave worry about these unwholesome developments. After filing their petitions, they are either ignored completely or have committees, which never sit, constituted.
Reports available to The Chronicle point to some institutions, including foreign universities, refusing to offer admission to some graduates from the UEW, whose certificates and grades contained on their transcripts are in doubt.
Again, there are serious internal criminal activities swept under the carpet, which have also been brought to the fore, causing concern about whether there is a verification system to check the background of staff and students.
It is surprising how students who were officially withdrawn for poor performance continue studying in the university, graduate and are awarded degrees. It is reported that there are a couple of such persons with suspicious UEW degrees in the system.
A telling instance is that of one student (name withheld), who two years ago, was shortlisted for an interview in the department of French Education. One of his lecturers petitioned the Dean of the Faculty of Research and Graduate Studies, challenging the basis for his call for the programme.
The student, according to the petitioner, had received unmerited grades leading to his graduation. Besides, prior to his graduation, he was assigned to the petitioner for a compulsory On-Campus Teaching Practice, "but he did not take part with his team members." The university, upon receipt of this petition, treated the issue with contempt, after forming a lame duck committee to look into the matter.
Source: AllAfrica.com
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