• New classrooms to be ready by May

The school of Finance and Banking (SFB) has at last confirmed that part time students in First Year would be attending their lectures from Rujugiro Estate hall in Gikondo.

This announcement which was made by the Academics vice Rector, Prof Erasmus Kaijage, came as a relief to the 400 students who have been stranded since the academic year began last week.

Speaking to The New Times, during the orientation day for the new students, Kaijage said that the school management had been able to secure the hall for first year private students as plans to build new class rooms are under way.

"We have been able to get the hall in the estate belonging to businessman Tribert Rujugiro but we are also planning to construct a building that will have seven classrooms at the campus whose works will commence towards the end of this month,” said Kaijage.

He also said that the building would be ready by May meaning that by the second semester students will be able to study from the school premises located at Mburabuturo Hill.

SFB had earlier tried to contact KIST for structural facilities for all their private students in evening programmes this academic year because they had limited facilities at their campus, but KIST turned down the request.

The vice Rector also revealed that the school was planning to build a seven-storey building at the campus which would solve the crisis.

"It is true that we have been lacking infrastructures because we have overstretched the campus which was planned to accommodate 200 students and now accommodates over 2000 students, we are however planning to build a seven-storey building which may probably be ready by next year,” he revealed.

Addressing the new students, the Rector of SFB Prof. Krishna Govender, cautioned them to live responsibly and avoid vices that degrade them in society as they were training to be future managers. 

He also told the new students not to be tempted by what they see outside because it would lure them into bad practices like prostitution in order to obtain those things.

SFB currently has a population of about 2,500 students and offers BBA, MBA, and short-term trainings.

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