Cape Coast Nurses College chase out fees defaulting trainees

The Nurses and Midwives Training College in Cape Coast is chasing out trainees who have defaulted in paying fees.

Authorities at the College have beefed up campus security with guards of the Cape Coast Metropolitan Assembly (CCMA) to ensure law and order, with an added mandate not to allow students owing fees access to the hostels.

According to a tutor at the College, Mrs Peace Sena Honkou-Semordzi, students were forewarned ahead of vacation to either pay fees in full on re-opening or arrange terms with the administration.

She explained that students who could afford part payment were told to bring along receipts of their bankers draft and present written undertakings from their guardians indicating when the rest of the fees would be paid.

Mrs Honkou-Semordzi said the arrangement was necessitated by a history of many students leaving the school without paying outstanding fees.

She said for the past three years the college had not received any bursaries from the government.

Some of the students the Daily Graphic spoke to said they were not aware of the request to either pay fees in full or in part before they would be admitted. But these were students who said they had paid part or the full fees and were therefore allowed into the hostels. 

When the Daily Graphic visited the College, Wednesday morning, it was all calm and academic work was ongoing while at the Ankaful Annex of the College, the CCMA security man at the hostel, Mr Francis Sam said they were called in to “do the operation” of sacking all those who had not paid the fees and that there had not been any confrontation because the students were cooperating with them.