A group of 34 engineering students from the Technical University of Kenya have filed a case against the institution for barring them from graduating.
According to the students, the institution blocked them from being part of this year’s graduation after they did not undertake a newly introduced unit.
This compelled the students to sue different stakeholders in the learning institution including the vice chancellor, council, academic registrar as well as the director of the School of Mechanical and Process Engineering.
Speaking on behalf of the students, their lawyer Ham Lagat said the institution’s senate was wrong to decide that the group should graduate in April 2017 and not December 20, 2016 as they had anticipated.
Lagat faulted the management of TUK for failing to inform the students of their fate in good time only to wait for the last minute before doing so.
“They have waited for a whole year to graduate without being informed that there was a unit they did not do and some were employed on condition that they avail their degree certificates upon graduation this year,” Mr Lagat said.
On their part, the students argued that they have completed all the units required for them to graduate and their counterparts who graduated in 2014 and 2015 did not sit for the new units.