{"id":8350,"date":"2012-04-02T10:49:20","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T10:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=8350"},"modified":"2012-04-02T10:49:20","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T10:49:20","slug":"polytechnic-students-to-strike-over-msb-loans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2012\/04\/02\/polytechnic-students-to-strike-over-msb-loans\/","title":{"rendered":"Polytechnic students to strike over MSB loans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Poly-students-debate-first-300x225.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Poly-students-debate-first-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Poly-students-debate-first-300x225\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8353\" \/><\/a>Students at the Polytechnic, a constituent college of the University of Malawi in Blantyre, on Monday abandoned classes and threatened to go onto the streets to demonstrate over unpaid students\u2019 loans and poor students welfare, among others.<\/p>\n<p>As Polytechnic Students Union (PSU) leaders were locked in a meeting with the college\u2019s administration, some students gathered in front of the college as they waited for the outcome of the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>PSU president Noel Mwenye said the meeting did not end well, but asked to be contacted later.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the students held a general meeting where they resolved to take administration to task over poor sanitation in the hostels, transport for ferrying students, parallel students\u2019 fees hike and how students\u2019 tuition and stationery allowance has been disbursed this year, among other issues.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018To the streets we go\u2019<\/p>\n<p>One student said: \u201cWe have agreed to go on the street if the outcome of the meeting is not positive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>College officials were not available for comment as they were reportedly in a meeting, but Principal Dr Grant Kululanga in his address to the students on Monday said the college has a set of rules and regulations which govern the college.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis institution has got laws that guide each student. As a college, we do not have the mandate to change the students\u2019 fees because that is issued by the University Council,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Kululanga said all students\u2019 concerns have to be channeled to the administration through the students union.<\/p>\n<p>Southern Region Police spokesperson Nicholas Gondwa said the police was tipped that the students wanted to go on the street and they were on alert.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of weeks ago students at Mzuzu University (Mzuni) also rioted over loans disbursement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students at the Polytechnic, a constituent college of the University of Malawi in Blantyre, on Monday abandoned classes and threatened [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1968],"tags":[1332,1591,258,1813,1468],"class_list":["post-8350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-university-of-malawi","tag-loans","tag-msb","tag-malawi","tag-polytechnic","tag-strike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}