The University Students Council (KSU) is concerned about the number of assessment results still unpublished, but the university maintains that the vast majority have been posted.

“For various reasons, a very small percentage of results still await publication and the university administration is endeavouring to speed up the process,” the university said in a statement.

Over the past week, KSU has collected a number of complaints regarding study units from various departments for which results were still not forthcoming, it said.

“Such incidents should be avoided in the best interest of the students,” the KSU said, urging the university administration to look into the issue and publish the remaining results as soon as possible.

With the approaching re-sit session due to start on September 1, the situation was creating an “unfair disadvantage” for those students who did not yet know whether they had passed, it continued.

While the KSU was aware that an extension had been given for university applications without incurring a fee, it believed “this should not be seen as a validation for the lack of the publication of results in time”.

It was also concerned that students would not have enough time to receive a reply on a revision of paper before the re-sit session in three weeks’ time.

But the university’s Communications and Alumni Relations Office explained, as it has done in the past, that it was “sometimes not possible to have the results for requests for revision of paper before the start of the September supplementary session because it is not always possible for the revisions to be completed during August”.

The council pointed out that the deadline for lecturers to submit any results was July 31, according to the collective agreement, and was apprehensive that this “seems to have been blatantly ignored” in certain cases, leaving students from different faculties still waiting for their results.

But the university explained the deadline was for the submission of results by the academics to the administration. These must then be checked and any queries addressed before publication.

“If many results are received near to, or at the deadline, this means they are published in the first week of August,” the office said, assuring students that publication of results is given top priority by administrative staff.