Entering the boom gate that is mantled by 3 VS security guards a lush of green grass and pine trees side to side with a tarred pathway that leads to impressively looking buildings and a fancy looking car park. One will be impressed at the first impression TELONE CENTRE FOR LEARNING strikes you with, Alas!, all that glitters is not Gold at Telone Centre for Learning.
No functional Wifi, Insufficient lectures, Cancelled end of semester exams, Harrassment of Students by campus security with some being verbally s3xually ab-sed and some physically ab-sed, a silenced SRC, with over an above 70% dropout rate and only a 10% of students graduating with the rest having sent their taxpayer’s guardian money down the drain not because of them but an incompetent management system, an institution that opens with students not knowing their results only to be told mid-semester, an institution with no student portal and wifi irregardless of being the leading telecommunications company in the country offering those services the irony in that is shocking and to drive the nail into the coffin an ever increasing tuition fee rising semester by semester in leaps and bounds in USD.
Indeed at Telone Centre For Learning the situation has reached another level and it is a headache to the average parent with a child there because Telone has become an income generating project at the cost of student welfare going against the standards being set by the ministry of Higher and tertiary education and the minister of ICT and more importantly His Excellency Cde ED Mnangagwa the brand ambassador for education 5.0.
The future is gloomy for Telone Centre For Learning a red flag that has been raised by ZICOSU and ZINASU the 2 giant student unions confirming the unbecoming situation at the campus. The president of the SRC and the Chairman for ZICOSU had this to say, “Swift action is needed to save the credibility of the institution and the Government’s parastatal which is abusing the stakeholders and their fees.” Whilst the ZINASU leadership isn’t happy with the prevailing complaint by parents and students alike with them agreeing to the SRC and ZICOSU statements.
