The recently established Tanzania International University (TIU) is ineptly operating under-camouflage of provisional license with university examinations conducted without lectures or tutors setting the papers, it has been learnt.
One of the rebelling tutors at the Kimara Mwisho located university who preferred anonymity said "Students are forced to write their end semester examination by Monday next week (tomorrow) without any progressive course work done during the semester."
A group of tutors at TIU told The Guardian on Sunday that the University Vice Chancellor Dr. Mathias Mzava had been managing the academic institution by an iron hand without a clear administrative structure or other administrators, they said: "He is everything…VC, Bursar, accountant, human resources director, with just a few other administration staff."
He has failed to pay academic staff members for four months, and when we decided to boycott, he resolved to set all course works and exams by himself even in those courses he is completely a layman. "He is cheating the law and procedures needed in governing academic institutions," said one of the tutors.
The TIU academic arcade said they are only allowed to offer certificate and diploma courses in some areas of academics but the Vice Chancellor refused to respect the law and introduced even the un-allowed ones and students are not taught at all.
"He has refused to pay us, but the sad thing is that he decided to set coursework marks by himself and even asked students to sign the coursework marks. So they sit for examinations without reading or writing coursework," he affirmed.
On their side students at the university expressed worries about the situation, saying the VC is convincing them to sit for exams without coursework… "This is ridiculous and amounts to violation of our rights….we need quality education not this shoddy one. We want him to bring us tutors so that we can learn well," they said.
One student from the Law Department spoke with the condition of anonymity, saying that they had not studied for almost two weeks, while those who are pursuing education had not entered their class for a month, but they are forced to write examination.
"What Dr Mzava did is that when some tutors declined attending classes demanding their unpaid salaries, he took all their subjects and set all coursework and exams, then he is forcing us to sit for exams while we have not gone to classes," he further noted.
On his side Dr Mzava said the allegations were not true, specifying that he had not handled the matter by himself instead he rescheduled all subjects which were taught by the boycotted tutors to those who were present.
However he admitted to have not paid the tutors on grounds of lack of stable financial sources, stressing that the university still had but a few students who could not pay enough to cover all operational costs including salaries.
"I had a deputy Vice Chancellor who told me that he was a Tanzanian before discovering that he was a foreigner. When I asked him to be a part time tutor he left so I re-scheduled his subjects to other tutors," he said.
In response to the matter, Prof Magishi Mgasa, the Acting Executive Secretary at the Tanzania Commission for Universities, said that TCU allowed him to offer only some courses at certificate and diploma levels but with very clear rules and regulations.
"We issued the university with provisional license to offer diploma and certificate courses but basing on what I heard TCU will work on the issue immediately and take required measures. If he is doing that he is completely contradicting the law," he firmly stated.
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