THIRD WEEK INTO STRIKE, NUST ADMINISTRATORS SILENT

Nust administration building ( picture taken from Bulawayo 24)

It has been three weeks without the conventional classes having their lessons as lecturers say they will never go back to the class unless the Government pays them their bonuses. 

NUST students have had the worst three weeks as the University administrators are seen to have turned a blind eye to the strike as if nothing is happening on Campus.No announcements pertaining to the strike are seen on the  National University of Science and Technology website.

“The strike has paralysed our studies and we have not even covered much of what we are supposed to learn this semester. We feel aggrieved because we paid our fees in full but we are made to suffer by both the lecturers and the university management,” said one conventional student at NUST.

Majority of the students at the Institution are renting out accommodation at up to US$400.00 per semester with the strike, this means there could be an extension in their stay which means they have to inn-cure unplanned costs. According to Media Centre online this then means that students end up opting for bad ways to raise money for their stay in Bulawayo.

For daily students who bode commuter omnibuses everyday this means they also waste US$2 everyday in transport for no lectures,

This has been seen by most people as a deliberate violation to the right to education and an infringement on the constitutional right to education.

The University administrators are silent, the government too seems not to care. What then is the future of students in most state institutions. The question then becomes " what sort of government neglects its future leaders? How will the students become leaders without the relevant education? what nation is Zimbabwe building?" 

Lecturers have vowed never to go back to work unless they receive their bonuses like other civil servants.

a letter signed by lecturers at a meeting held at Nust (letter taken from an online source)

articles to read on
http://www.herald.co.zw/varsity-lecturers-down-tools/
http://nehandaradio.com/2015/02/12/university-lecturers-go-strike/http://www.newsdzezimbabwe.co.uk/2015/02/lecturers-go-on-strike.html