THE Technical Education and Vocational Training (TEVETA) has maintained that over 500 students at Evelyn Hone College will not sit to write their examinations this December due to registration issues.
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It is reported that the students had registered at the college level using a system called Study Master, but they were not captured on TEVETA’s official Learner Data Management System (LDMS).
According to TEVETA corporate and communications affairs manager Clive Siachiyako, only students registered on the national system are eligible to sit for exams.
He added that TEVETA has now allowed the college to register the students properly on LDMS.
However, they will only be able to write their exams in April because previous exams have already started, and a separate set of papers needs to be prepared for them.
“The issue is that their friends have already started writing, so all the papers that have been written have now become past papers. Those who have missed, we will prepare a totally different exam to allow them to sit,” he stated.
“Exams are very sensitive, it’s not something that you can just say, register today and write tomorrow. The process has to be done diligently.”
On complaints that students had already registered at the college level but were not recorded with TEVETA, Siachiyako clarified that the national system is the official platform for exam registration which is developed by TEVETA and has been given to colleges to login credentials for the institutions and student’s registration of examinations.
“But Evelyn Hone created their own parallel system called [Study Master]. So the registration of students are referring to, is what was done at college level, not on the national system.”
“Whatever registration happened on that system, we were not aware because that is not our system, and we don’t even know what happened there,” he said.
Siachiyako said not until the college registered students on the Learner Data Management System or LDMS in short are the students at Evelyn Hone considered for exams.
“We then use that data to start planning: how many papers to prepare, how many answer booklets are needed, and all other logistics,” added Siachiyako.
By Sharon Zulu
Kalemba December 3, 2025
