nust crisis

The economic situation in Zimbabwe has become intense affecting a great number people espaecially those in the education sector.  Sometime ago students received money from the government which they would use to cater for their fees but all is gone now and they have to find ways to pay their fees.  However in order to keep universilities facilities improving they started to fund the universities every month. they have even failed to pay fees for those who are on cadetship. the situation continues to get worse when noe NUST lecturers are on strike and parallel classes are not allowed to class.Operations at these institutions have almost ground to a halt, to date, no meaningful money has been released to support the day-to-day running costs,” said Chombo.
Lecturers at the National University of Science and Technology (Nust) have abandoned parallel and masters’ programmes classes accusing the university management of failing to pay them for the evening lessons and diverting the money to cover other expenses.In protest, academics submitted a memo to management last week after they resolved to stop teaching parallel and masters’ students in protest over non-payment.
“Academics at Nust refused to donate their part-time wages to the institution. They demand to be paid their dues,” Nust Educators Association spokesperson Blessing Jona said yesterday.
“The institution should simply take its percentage from the revenue generated from part-time lessons and for them to take all the funds is unfair. The institution cannot survive at the expense of the people who offer the service that generates the money.”
Nust’s director of information and public relations Felix Moyo confirmed the strike that began on Monday.
“The allegation that the university’s administration is mismanaging funds is not true because there is no money to pay the lecturers since students owe the university $3,111,000 for the current and the previous semester, which is supposed to be used to pay off their lecturers,” Moyo said.
“Most of these institutions have choked up to very worrying levels of debt to their respective suppliers, especially for water, electricity, internet and food for students.”
Finance Minister Tendai Biti has said that the country’s financial position is desperate and nearly every ministry is affected.