29/08/2014
KENYATTA UNIVERSITY STUDENTS’ ASSOCIATION
OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
INTERNAL MEMO
Dated: 28th August, 2014
FROM: President
TO: All Students
RE: GENERAL COMMUNICATION
I thank God as we come to the end of our vacation. I trust that you have had a fruitful period. As the semester starts, I would like to share the following information.
HELB: We have continued to follow up with the Board and I would like to confirm that some names of those who qualified were released on Wednesday, 27th, August Evening. We have scheduled another meeting today with the board with a view of hastening the completion of the process. I will give further direction on this matter tomorrow.
In the meantime, we yesterday agreed with the management that all those who have been given rooms in school will be able to access those rooms from Monday without payment to such a period when we have ensured HELB funds have been availed. The Accommodation Directorate will therefore be duly advised.
LINKAGE OF UNIVERSITY FINANCIAL SYTEM WITH BANKS: For the last six months we have engaged the universities with a view of having them link our financial system with the banks to avoid the long queues at the start of the semester.
However, due to the fact that we use four different banks, the process will not go live at the start of the semester. However, we yesterday obtained proof for completion of User Acceptance Tests and a commitment that the process will be live by start of November. This will also be accompanied by other progress like commissioning of MPESA pay bill number to ensure you can pay your fees comfortably.
We have however undertaken measures to ensure that; there will be more staff at registration desks and I have requested KUSA officials to be around to ensure that we do not experience the endless queues.
USE OF STUDENT EMAILS: At the start of the year, I requested us to register and start using student email; for example [email protected]. We will provide information on how to create those emails on our various platforms.
The intention is to have information including lecture notes, fee statements and general communication send to you. All students have been created on email. It’s just you to activate it.
Reporting Dates remain 1st, 2nd and 3rd September. Kindly let us know each concern that we should address as the semester starts. Thank you for continually engaging us.
Regards
Lone Felix
KUSA PRESIDENT