Recent issues’ surrounding the non-recognition of IBS and IBS University by the Department of Higher Education Research Science and Technology has denied students their preferred choice for tertiary education, moreover, confusing students and parents.
IBS University has received numerous inquiries from parents and students expressing concerns that students weren’t selected to IBSU as their first choice, however selected to other tertiary institutions.
Joanna Dagina of Lae, is a parent of a prospecting student of IBSU.
Dagina expressed disappointment that her daughter was not selected to IBSU despite per her first choice indicated in her School Leaver Form at the end of Year 12.
Similar frustration was showed by parents at Jubilee and De La Salle Secondary Schools when IBSU’s Public Relations team visited to offer more clarification on the issue of selections to IBSU for 2018.
While this is causing confusion for students, it also puts them in a dilemma where they are forced to decide either settling for the institution allocated by DHERST or choose IBSU as initially chosen in their SLF and forego their TESAS if they had been offered scholarship by the DHERST during national selections.
The institution said they are a fully recognised university and will be in operation in 2018.
Students who listed IBSU as their first choice in their SLF are encouraged to register and enrol at Saraga Campus Six Mile between 27th December 2017 to 15th January 2018.