UNIVERSITY EXTENDS CLEARANCE DEADLINE

By Boaz Onyango

The University will extend the deadline of signing out of rooms till next week, Monday due to examinations. A memo released last week stated that students should clear from rooms by 12th of July. However, this is reprieve to students who are expected to complete their exams on Friday. 

Speaking in his office, Catering and Accommodations Manager Mr. Chesang’ said the examination office had communicated that the exams will end at 5 pm, making it impractical for the students to clear.

Mr. Chesang’ also disclosed why continuing students ought to sign out of hostels despite a 10-day holiday. He said that the university had reached the decision to have students clear fee balances at beginning of the semester before being allocated rooms. 

The accommodation department also wants to allocate rooms afresh to accommodate the incoming 2000 fourth years in the Senior Hostels like A and E. Some of the senior hostels are reportedly being occupied by the second and third year students. The 2008 K.C.S.E group will report on 22nd of July.

It also emerged that clearance from rooms will now be done every semester to accommodate different lots of students. This will however, will depend on the university calendar which remains unpredictable.

Meanwhile, the ICT department is currently feeding the system with the student’s data to pave way for implementation of the online booking from this October.