By OLIVER SAMBOKOSTUDENTS and graduates at Copperstone University have not been refunded their tuition fees months after the Higher Education Authority (HEA) ordered the higher learning institution to cease offering nine uncredited Engineering courses.This followed a joint inspection between HEA and the Engineering Institution of Zambia (EIZ) which concluded that Copperstone University was offering engineering programmes against regulations.The cessation was in accordance with the provisions of Statutory Instrument No. 25 of 2016 Part III Section 10 (1), which states that the proprietor of a Higher Education Institution shall not offer a learning programme for which it is not accredited.Students told the Daily Nation that they had not been refunded their tuition and other fees since February when HEA sanction the higher learning institution, whose camps is on the Kitwe-Ndola highway.The students complained that they had made several presentations but to date they had not been given their money.Meanwhile, HEA Communications Officer, Boniface Musoba said the […]
Copperstone Uni students still in limbo
