Africa-Press – South-Sudan. South Sudan’s embassy in the Egyptian capital Cairo has this morning been closed down by students studying in Suez Canal University over claims that the embassy has violated scholarship agreements then students had signed.
In a statement extended to Sudans Post this morning, South Sudanese students studying at Suez Canal University are asked to pay tuition fees which the student shouldn’t pay by the virtue of the scholarship agreement.
“With high regard and esteem, we, South Sudanese students at Suez University are releasing this press statement to the ministry of higher education and the entire government of South Sudan to bring this problem to an end,” they said in the statement.
They went on to explain why they decided to protest. “The problem is a scholarship irregularity which is severely violated beyond its valor by the university.
“In faculty of petroleum and mining engineering, we have six distinct departments [namely] Petroleum engineering, Petroleum Exploration and Production engineering, Refinery and petrochemical engineering, Metallurgy and materials engineering, Mining and surveying engineering, Geology and geophysical engineering.
“The department number 2 in the above is the problem in which students are asked money (tuition fees). The question is why is this department not treated like other departments and which article in the scholarship agreement says it should be treated differently yet it is in the same faculty?
“This is totally a severe violation of specialization according to scholarship agreement and so it should be looked into. The agreement is very clear, any student admitted to the faculty has right to specialize in any department of the faculty. It is the only university which is going contrary against the scholarship agreement.
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