The administration of Kyambogo University has dismissed two Information Technology (IT) experts for aiding four students in altering their marks ahead of the forthcoming 19th graduation slated to take place from December 6-8, 2023.
Professor Eli Katunguka, the Vice Chancellor of the University while addressing the media at Kyambogo University on December 4, 2023, said that, the administration is aware of the continued forgery of students in order to force themselves on the graduation program, adding that action on the four students and IT experts involved has been taken.
“The administration has confirmed the continued forgery of students, forcing themselves on the graduation program. We have dismissed the two IT experts and the four students found culpable for the act will not graduate,” Katunguka said.
He noted that, the students approached some unscrupulous people in the ICT department with money and asked to have their marks altered, citing that, the staff were arrested. He said that, the administration will not allow such practices, adding that, it is determined to take action on the staff and students involved.
“When we discovered, we removed their names from the graduation list, then they approached me, asking why they are not on the list. However, I sent them back to their faculties, and Heads of Departments who keep the original mark sheets. You may change in the system but original mark sheets remain with Heads of Departments who approve the final list of graduation, and that is how we got some of these students,” Katunguka noted.
Kyambogo University has cautioned students against altering marks with intentions of attaining academic papers, and have been advised to take their studies seriously. The University is expected to graduate a total of 10, 926 graduates with 6118 males and 4808 females, and among which nine are PHDs.
The practice of altering results is not a new trend, neither has it only been identified at Kyambogo University alone. In 2021, Makerere University expelled two staff over forging marks from the School of Health Sciences and smuggling unqualified students onto the graduation list in 2017.
However, some of the dismissed students alleged that, some lecturers from these institutions of learning were extorting money from them in order to be supervised, while others alleged that they were being failed on purpose by the lecturers in order to demand for money from the students.
