Students likely to get raw deal as learning resumes in public universities.

Maseno University's revised semester dates as approved by its senate will see students in their final year get taught for only additional seven weeks to complete the semester which had been interrupted in its second week.

The university senate as in the initial timeline expects that teaching was on for two weeks before the 54 days long go slow by lecturers that paralysed learning in all public universities in the country.

Senate after a sitting held on March 14, 2017, revised semester the semester dates to have learning to all its students resume on the following day after debating on four options on how the semester should have been handled.

Despite the directive, a cross check at the main campus on Friday affirmed that the institution still remained lifeless as nearly all the students had vacated the campus for the period the lecturers had been on strike with a few trickling in to join those who remained at the institution during the strike.

According to the revised term dates notice posted on the institution's website, final year's students will stop being taught on May 9, 2017, while continuing students were supposed to proceed with classes for at least three weeks.

Under normal circumstances, one of the students revealed that they are allowed to prepare for examinations for at least seven days, which will not be the case this semester as exams will start immediately.

"We will only have a weekend to prepare for the examinations unlike in the past where we could have adequate time to revise our notes in readiness for the examination," said a student, who refused to be named.

The revised plan shows that final year undergraduate students will proceed for industrial attachment and teaching practice as soon as their lectures end in May.

The attachees will be required to report back to school for their examinations that will run to August 4, 2017, barely three nights to the General Election.

The senate, according to the notice ratified a one-month allocation to examiners to have released results to allow moderation further to which they will later on in October approve and have this year's graduation on December 15, 2017, as it had been earlier scheduled.

It is, however, unclear as to why two other options availed for consideration by the deputy vice chancellor academics and student affairs Mary Kipsat had not been considered appropriate by the university senate.

If the two options were found to be unsuitable by the senate, timelines suggested we were to have teaching done for eleven weeks starting on Monday, March 20 continuing students while those in their final year proceeded for industrial attachment and teaching practice from May to August and start their final semester in September or consideration for a January to April attachment period where the affected groups will graduate in 2018.