{"id":11911,"date":"2023-10-03T12:57:46","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T12:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=11911"},"modified":"2023-10-03T12:57:48","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T12:57:48","slug":"multimedia-university-students-protest-over-delay-in-helb-disbursement-missing-marks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=11911","title":{"rendered":"Multimedia University Students Protest Over Delay In HELB Disbursement, Missing Marks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"573\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-7-1024x573.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11912\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-7-1024x573.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-7-980x549.png 980w, https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-7-480x269.png 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Traffic along Magadi Road in Kajiado County was on Tuesday morning paralysed as Multimedia University students went up in arms against the college\u2019s administration and the Higher Education Loans Board (HELB). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Students blocked the road outside their school gate, accusing the varsity of closing the student portal before they had completed registering for this semester\u2019s classes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They also complained of missing marks for the graduating class of 2023 and a delay in the disbursement of HELB funds for continuing students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police lobbed teargas at the students to disperse them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The university is set to have its tenth graduation ceremony on Friday, October 27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traffic along Magadi Road in Kajiado County was on Tuesday morning paralysed as Multimedia University students went up in arms against the college\u2019s administration and the Higher Education Loans Board (HELB). Students blocked the road outside their school gate, accusing the varsity of closing the student portal before they had completed registering for this semester\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11913,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11911\/revisions\/11913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}