Education Minister Jessica Alupa, has warned lecturers against the practice of ‘‘sex for good marks’’ at university campuses.
Alupo was today speaking at the launch of a 22.5 billion shillings project at Gulu University. Alupo said that she had heard of cases where lecturers seduce especially female students by offering the good results.
The multi- billion shillings project is being funded by the African Development Bank (ADB) under the science and technology loans to the universities.
At the event Minister Alupo said that lecturers are stakeholders in education and should therefor desist from the practice of sex-for- marks because it lowers the standard of education. Alupo observed that those engaged in the practice risk getting HIV Aids and other sexually transmitted diseases.
Minister Alupo urged lecturers to offer guidance to students instead of demanding for sex from them.
Recently, Betty Aol Ocan, the Gulu District Woman Member of Parliament alleged that the practice is common with female students.
Aol explained that girls who turned down advances by their lecturers, risked either being awarded retakes or poor marks.
The legislator says she has been approached by female students who have complained about their lecturers demanding sex from them in exchange for academic favours.
In the previous years, such cases were reported to be rampant at Makerere University.
In March last year, Members of Parliament on the Education committee grilled Prof. Dumba Ssentamu, the Makerere University vice chancellor over rising cases of sex for marks.
