Unitech confirms registration fee

University of Technology (Unitech) has confirmed an updated minimum registration fee of 75 per cent this year.
Registrar Veronica Thomas said the university needed the funds to aid the start of this academic year 2024.
She said Unitech had not received the Government’s Tertiary Education Students Assistance Scheme (Tesas) funds for semester two last year.
While not disclosing any amount, Thomas said the Government only released the warrants to date.
She said the senior executive management team (Semt) decided on the increased 15 per cent to pull the school through.
Thomas explained that the updated amount was set in the university’s payment system, which means a student is only eligible to register once the 75 per cent of the required fee is paid.
This newsroom noted that the 2024 school fee structure varied across different disciplines offered at the university, highest being K13,000-plus for a residential self-sponsor continuing student and more than K15,000 for a residential self-sponsor first year student.
Student representative council president Christopher Igidu said many students who could not afford this increase had not registered yet he brought these concerns to the attention of the registrar on Wednesday, Feb 7.
Thomas confirmed with The National that the majority of those already registered were mostly first-year students and some continuing, who have already paid the 75 per cent required fees and completed the registration process.
“For the students who were unable to pay for the set minimum registration fees, the Semt will attend to them next week by adjusting the fee percentage,” she said.
“This week, Semt will only attend to the students that paid the 75 per cent registration fees.”
Thomas said Unitech was in talks to upgrade its facilities.
“We are looking to improve our facilities which are more than 50 years old and are in dire need of repair, such as the dormitories,” said Thomas.
“There is also ongoing talks on improving other facilities such as the dining hall, lecture rooms and others.
“Also, we are looking at completing our dining hall, so that it can hold more than one thousand students.” With the increased number of students this year, the institution was looking forward to maintaining and building more housing facilities.
Students who paid the 75 per cent required component fees were eligible for accommodation within the Taraka and their Okari campuses.
Currently, their boarding houses held 20 to 30 students per building at the female dormitories and the male dormitories had more than 100 rooms at the Taraka campus only.
Other students will be placed at the Okari Campus, Buimo road with transport provided to and from Taraka campus daily.