By Sulayman Waan
The Gambia College management has strongly denied allegation made against the college management that students were denied access to write their examinations.
The school management reacted to the allegation after some reports have stated that students of the college were barred from sitting to their first term examination due to unpaid tuition fees.
According to them, students were asked to pay a sum of D7,000 per annum.
Speaking to The Voice over the issue, the school principal, Abubacarr Jallow, said: “No student is denying from sitting exams in The Gambia College. Even those students who are yet to pay are not denying from sitting to their examinations.”
“What we institutionalized were students that have not paid their tuition fees to write undertaking as to how they plan to pay their tuition fees on their own terms. Some students have said that they will finish the payment in three months. Others said they can only pay one thousand (D1000) per month and it has been accepted by us (school management),” he added.
He noted that denying students from sitting for examination is not in the interest of the institution.
He disclosed that there was a pressure group of students that neither paid nor write undertaking because they were trying to introduce no-fee payment in the school saying “that is outside of their (students) mandate.”
However, he said when the pressure group realized that they cannot succeed in the campaign; they decided to make an undertaking statement, while “yesterday, I allowed some people (Arabic teachers) because they said they do not understand the language.”