KIU, Western Campus - The Directorate of Quality Assurance at the Western Campus has set at 75% mark for the required attendance for students to be allowed to sit exams.

This means that a student who attends less than three quarters of their lectures will not be allowed to sit their end of semester exams and will have to re-sit the exam next year.

In a letter written by the Deputy Director Quality Assurance at Kampala International University Western Campus, Dr. Grace Akinyi Adongo and circulated to all faculties, students were warned against dodging lectures.

c��?This serves as a warning to all students that you will be required to attain 75% lecture attendance to be allowed to sit for your end of semester exams,c⬝ she wrote. c��?Please note that computation is still ongoing until the end of the semester and we will pin the updated list a week before the end of semester exams.c⬝

Attendance lists in all schools at the campus are circulated in every lecture for students in attendance to sign. They are then submitted to the Directorate for Quality Assurance on a daily basis for computation of each studentc��?cs attendance result.

According to Collins Kakwezi, the Deputy Public Relations Officer Western Campus, the news was well received.

Kenneth Mwesigye, a fourth-year student of medicine said it was required to ensure that students attended lectures and grasped what was taught.

c��?My course is very practical in that if you donc��?ct attend lectures, you have no chance of being a medical doctor and you will end up disappointing your parents,c⬝ Mwesigye said.