The University of Guyana Students’ Society (UGSS) “will be engaging in several actions of civil disobedience” at the Turkeyen Campus on Wednesday, to bring attention and action to the challenges facing students.

In a press release, UGSS said students at the Tain Campus and those pursuing distance education through the Institute of Distance and Continuing Education (IDCE) are also plagued with similar problems, which include unmarked scripts and outstanding grades from the first semester. It said too students are sometimes faced with negative attitudes from some lecturers and that there are no lecturers for courses that are set to start in the second semester. There is also the need for better food and library facilities, wireless internet access, seating, a stationary high-tech Multimedia Projector and Screen and public address systems for the lecture theatres, the release noted.

According to the UGSS, these issues have been raised at both the UG Academic Board and Council, but to no avail. As a result, the UGSS believes it has been left with no other alternative but to act in order to safeguard the interest of the students it was elected to serve. The catalogue of conditions that presently plagues the University cannot be allowed to run its course and needs immediate and urgent intervention by the University’s administration and other stakeholders,” UGSS said.