UKZN's med school rot exposed

[schumi]

Durban - The University of KwaZulu-Natal’s medical school failed to implement its quota policy, blocking deserving youngsters from becoming doctors.

Some students were also wrongly given a place “due to an IT system error” that could have been manually manipulated.

These were among conclusions of a report by auditing firm KPMG that was handed to the university’s Vice-Chancellor Dr Albert van Jaarsveld in November but kept from public view.

The report was requested by the Sunday Tribune through a Promotion of Access to Information Act application but leaked before this was processed.

KPMG’s investigation focus was to examine allegations of bribery and corruption in the sale of places at the Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, in Durban.

It found deserving students were denied places because of an IT student database error and school quintile ranking errors.

In terms of school rankings, places are reserved for pupils from Quintile 1, 2 and 3 schools (poor schools).

It also found: “There are unidentified people who have been accessing the system and ‘regretting’ applicants.”

The investigators could not prove bribery allegations as they did not have access to UKZN employees’ bank accounts.

KPMG interviewed three of the implicated officials who said they had never received payment to manipulate the admission process.

The firm also conducted digital searches of their hard-drives and emails.

The report looked at whether Indian students had intentionally misrepresented their race and claimed to be “coloured” to slip through the quota system and secure a place.

KPMG was asked to verify eight students whose race was under scrutiny.

More at: http://www.iol.co.za/news/ukzns-med-school-rot-exposed-7723381

 

[konfab]

More at: http://www.iol.co.za/news/ukzns-med-school-rot-exposed-7723381

The report looked at whether Indian students had intentionally misrepresented their race and claimed to be “coloured” to slip through the quota system and secure a place.

All in the proudly non racial South Africa that we should thank our ANC overlords for..

 

[Mila]

NEVER THERE IS NO QUOTAS IN UNIVERSITIES!!!!! :erm:

 

[Solarion]

Race quotas.

Well after 1994 SA went two steps forward, 3 steps back.

 

[DA-LION-619]

Ever notice how the well educated forumites never complain about race quotas. Wonder why.

 

[Geoff.D]

Ever notice how the well educated forumites never complain about race quotas. Wonder why.

And? How do you know which forumites are well educated and which are not? And to which group of forumites do you belong? Or am I free to draw my own conclusions?

And, in the end, ANY form of quota system for any reason whatsoever is just wrong.