Overcrowding in Lecture halls

Students fitting themselves into a Classroom

University of Buea, the place to be, with vast space harboring magnificent buildings is no doubt one of Cameroons State Universities that has a big compound with these structures occupying not up to half of the total area.

 With the numerous lecture halls that are in the University of Buea, accommodation is still a very big problem.  Overcrowding in lecture halls is an issue still to be addressed by the University of Buea Administration.

The question which arises therein is whether the University admits students taking into consideration the number of halls that exist or whether they are going to construct new lecture halls to accommodate the number gruesome number that they admit every year.

According to statistics from the admission and records office, the University of Buea admitted more than five thousand students for the academic year 2013|2014, added to some other thousands of students that exist.

 This increase in admission has over the years been a hard nut to crack as students are found standing up in lecture halls while lectures are on. Even in the largest Amphis, 750 and 600 Amphitheaters overcrowding and lack of seats is a reality.

 This has made students to resort to using benches and abandoned seats just to attend lectures. Students from attending one lecture will take to their heels to the next lecture hall just to secure seats, all because of the undersized nature of the classrooms.

 In some situations, students would come to class one hour or thirty minutes before the start time of the lecture of which they are not sometimes sure to attend the lecture because of the marathon. With disappointment, some will retire home and that will be the beginning of failure.

The reason for this limited seat is the deterioration of seats in the Amphis which can therefore not accommodate the number it is intended to. The seat are pending repairs and the School administration is beckoned to intervene either by cutting down the number of students admitted each year, building new lectures halls of higher capacity or repair the seats which are damaged.