Times Of Swaziland: 82 EXPELLED  STUDENTS LOSE  SANU APPEAL

82 EXPELLED  STUDENTS LOSE  SANU APPEAL
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BY KWANELE DLAMINI on 06/09/2018 23:24:00


MBABANE – With each passing day, the plight of the 82 SANU students, who
refused to rewrite an examination paper they passed very well, intensifies.
On Wednesday, the High Court dismissed the Bachelor of Science Nursing Midwifery
students’ application for an order that the Southern  Africa Nazarene
University (SANU) should unconditionally allow them in BSNM Level Four for
purposes of studying.
They had also prayed that the court should review and set aside the
university’s decision to expel them from class on August 28, 2018.
The students approached the court after SANU ago allegedly expelled them from
class a fortnight following the issuance of a ruling by Judge Nkosinathi Maseko
that their results be released and the memo directing them to rewrite the paper
in question be set aside.
SANU filed an appeal of Judge Maseko’s ruling four days after the ruling was
issued. The students returned to court after being expelled from class,
demanding that they be forthwith allowed to Level Four for purposes of studying.
Now that their application has been dismissed, through their attorney, the
students are expected to file another application for an order that pending
determination of the appeal filed by SANU, Judge Maseko’s initial order be
executed.
After picking the anomaly in the examination, the university nullified the
scores which the students obtained in the Parent Child Health II (NUR 306)
course under the Bachelor of Science Nursing Midwifery.
The effect of the nullification of the results, according to the Registrar of
the Southern Africa Nazarene University (SANU) Stanley Ngqwane, was that each
student was given zero per cent in the affected course. The external examiner,
Professor Nonhlanhla Sukati said it was likely that the students had access to
the examination paper and the marking guide before they wrote the paper. The
students, in their initial application told the court that they were not to
blame if the examiner recycled the same questions year after year. They further
argued that the same questions had been repeated since 2014.