By Our Reporter

Makerere University’s supreme governing body has extended the deadline for tuition payment by two weeks .The students who were supposed to have paid at least 60% of their tuition by 8th March 2013,now have until March 22nd to pay .

Makerere University vice-chancellor, Prof. John Ssentamu Ddumba told journalists on Tuesday in a briefing  that the university council has responded to the students’ call for an extension of the deadline by adding them at least  more two weeks.

Prof.Dumba Ssentamu, Makerere University VC

Dumba stressed that first-year students who will not  have completed their payment of tuition and other fees by the second week  will be   deregistered .

The tuition fees policy requires privately sponsored students to either pay full tuition fees and register for papers in a semester or clear at least 60% of their tuition fees and register for 60% of their total credit units for that semester.