Egerton University has seven days to avail academic results of a second year student who moved to court challenging his discontinuation from the Njoro-based institution.
High court judge Lady Justice Abigael Mshila on Friday ordered the institution to avail a detailed report on the academic progress of the Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery student, Patel Prasun, who was discontinued last year on allegations of failing course units.
Justice Mshila while issuing the orders, said the documents will help the court on further directions on the judicial review Prasun filed early this year.
The student, who claims that his hopes to become a doctor were dashed after the university expelled him, further asserts that the higher institution of learning discontinued him on grounds that he had failed only one course unit – Biochemistry.
According to court files, various heads of departments at the university advised him to retake the single unit since he had passed other units so that the marks would be credited in the following year.
"Upon successfully retaking the first year examinations, I was advised by the university that I had passed my examinations and thus qualified to proceed to level two of study," stated Prasun in his suit.
However, Prasun claims that he was perturbed to receive a discontinuation letter from the university in October 2013 stating that he had failed more than 50 percent of required credit factor contrary to earlier results.
A copy of first year academic provisional transcript he annexed shows he passed all the units except Biochemistry and obtained 53.27 marks and was advised to re=sit the failed unit.
The university has, however, issued another copy showing Prasun failed two units, including communications skills and was directed to repeat the whole academic year.
Professor Ndiritu F.G, the deputy academic affairs registrar, in a supplementary affidavit said Prasun was discontinued for failing to sit for all courses, and had whole academic year results nullified.