Divine Word University welcomed a total of 1,689 students to the campus as of last week Friday.
According to the President of DWU, Professor Fr Philp Gibbs, most of these students have not yet registered as they are yet to sort out their school fees.
He said that though registrations have closed last Friday, he has given students as of yesterday to register.
“For the Registrations that took place for one week starting from the 7th to the 11th of February, many of the students did not register due to a number of factors.
Factors including; flight disruptions as well as HECAS students not being issued their tickets on time from the DHERST office.”
“This is why we decided that registrations be extended for another week but no more than the 18th of February. We however, gave students as of yesterday to complete their registrations since we saw that many of them are still yet to register.”
In addition to this, Professor Gibbs stated that word has been sent out to those who are on the reserved list that there is space available for them. These students have been given yesterday and today to secure a place for themselves in the institution.
“Unfortunately, with these reserved students will not be given accommodation by the university as the dorm facilities are pretty full at this stage.”
“These students can only be registered under non-residential in which they would have to have to look for their own accommodation outside the campus.”
As unfortunate as it sounds, Professor Gibbs said that there has to be strictly two students per room and with more students coming in, there is not enough space to cater for those.
Professor Gibbs added that there are not enough funds to cater for more dormitories.
Apart from this, Professor Gibbs stated that out of the 1, 689 students who came in for registrations, only 461 were vaccinated and about 27% of the students presented flu-like symptoms when they came in for their medical check-up before registering.
“These students were referred to our Covid nurse for further testing. Apart from that, I am happy for those students who made the decision to get vaccinated. Though that it is not half of the students in the campus, this is an effort.”
Professor Gibbs concluded that despite this, for those students who have already registered, have begun classes last week and are now in their second week of school.