Over 14000 students of Uganda’s Makerere University are reported to have secured fake marks towards graduating.
Authorities have announced that they have withheld 14,895 transcripts for students who graduated in February until the institution fixes its results management system.
The East African reported that the Makerere University said some staff infiltrated the results management system and falsified some marks.
The university Vice-Chancellor, Prof John Ssentamu Ddumba, is now appealing to former students and the public to give them a few weeks to investigate the matter.
Daily Monitor in Uganda also quoted the Vice Chancellor as saying “There is nothing the university can do. But students can give us three to four weeks to sort out the problem and we will start issuing transcripts again. We hadn’t started giving them out yet and I can’t give them when we know there is a problem”.
Four members of the Academic Registrar’s department of the institution have been suspended over the matter.
Source: Africafeeds.com
