It is alleged that the management of United States International University Africa (USIU) has warned staffers divulging information to media about student unrest.
On the lead is finance and legal director who is threatening the staff members saying that anybody found to be speaking to bloggers will be punished.
Yesterday, students from the School of Science who are mostly from the Bachelor of Pharmacy held demonstrations opposing the university grading system terming it as is too high and failing them en mass, so as to get them to repeat courses and make further payments.
The USIU grading system has been a bone of contention with most students claiming that they are not being treated like other students in the country.
In response, the school issued a statement refuting the claims on its grading system, saying that they are doing a review.
“In close consultations with the Management Board (MB), the School of Pharmacy and Health Sciences is currently addressing the recommendations for improving a contextualised grading system system proposal to be applied to all health sciences majors, with a view to submitting the revised proposal to the MB.
The revised proposal will then be submitted for deliberation by the Academic Affairs Committee of the University Council, which in turn, makes its own recommendation to the full council for final deliberation and decision. The Council may adopt, reject, or recommend further revisions to the proposal,” read the statement in part.