Unpaid tuition fees threaten University of Zambia

A “growing practice of non-payment of tuition fees” threatens to grind campus activities at the University of Zambia to a halt, Damaseke Chibale, university spokesman, warned on 31 July.

The university is staggering from the effects of unpaid fees worth K58 million (US$6.5m), Chibale said. A third of the university’s students aren’t paid up. This is problematic, Chibale said, as fees make up 70 per cent of the university’s income.

On 2 August the Lusaka Times newspaper reported that the university was threatening to ban 8,000 students who had not paid their fees from sitting their end of year exams.