– By Pushpa Sathish, Staff Writer

It’s not all good news in the world of distance and online education. There are some parts of the world where education offered from a distance is not what it’s promised to be. Students in the African country of Rwanda are not too pleased with the Kigali Institute of Education. And rightly so, considering that a three-year course has extended to its sixth year, that face-to-face instruction times were drastically reduced, and that some students have been told to repeat whole years even after they had cleared the exams. All Africa reports:

"We signed a contract of three years running from November 2001 – November 2004. We were supposed to have completed our diploma courses by the end of these three years. Kigali Institute of Education authorities have continued to delay the completion of the program giving us many lame excuses," a student said.