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The UWI Guild of Students, St Augustine, is now threatening to take action, in response to lecturers withholding students' grades. This as there appears to be no end in sight to WIGUT'S protest action. Rynessa Cutting reports.
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00:00The UWE Guild of Students tells TV6 the situation is getting to the point where
00:05the student body can no longer sit idly by. We do understand what the
00:11lecturers are asking for but we don't like the fact that the students have
00:14been affected. So what we can say is if proper action isn't taken and they sit
00:19down with the Ministry and we got it doesn't happen at some point maybe right
00:24after the registration process has ended we will be taking some sort of
00:30action as a Guild and as the students of the University of the West Indies.
00:33That's all we are willing to say at this current moment. We don't want to say any
00:36premature statements but we will be taking necessary steps in a gradual
00:41manner so we know that it's affecting us because it is. In the meantime students
00:47remain in limbo. A student came up to me and said I went to class and our lecturer
00:52said that they're going to teach but they're not going to give us any grades
00:55for the course that we did last semester and this is a course that's needed as a
00:59prerequisite to do a course that they need to graduate. So I mean these grades
01:03have a severe severe severe impact. I mean students are not able to register
01:08properly, they're not able, I mean look at thinking about the mental stress a
01:11student will be in not knowing if they passed the course they needed in order to
01:14graduate. And I mean one course that you didn't get a grade for can pull back your
01:20entire life for a couple years and it's not just one day we're looking at 20,000
01:23grades that have not been uploaded. But in some good news the Guild reports that
01:27it has made some progress with the administration. I've encouraged everyone
01:31to continue attending your classes regardless if you are registered or not
01:34because at the end of the day you cannot compromise your academics because
01:37teaching is still going on. The campus has graciously listened to us and we've
01:41successfully advocated for all late registration fees to be waived. They will
01:45communicate with the gate office, they will communicate with sponsors and donors
01:48to mitigate the effects of not having a transcript and all those things. We are
01:51still encouraging the Wigert and the ministry to reach a concession acceptable
01:55remit where our grades could come back.
01:57Renessa Cutting, TV6 News.
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