The office of a Ho Chi Minh City-based educational consulting firm in Binh
Duong, the city’s neighboring province, was crowded over the weekend as many
parents gathered there to reclaim what was theirs: deposits to book places for
their children at Canadian schools.
Those parents paid the Atlantic
International Education and Training Joint Stock Company, headquartered in
HCMC’s District 1, US$4,000 to $10,000 more than one year ago in the hope that
their kids would receive admission offers from their desired schools in Canada.
Contrary to Atlantic’s promise of
such offers, they have received nothing since the payment.
Thinking they had been tricked by
the company, the parents launched a “search” for the director, Mai Xuan Quang,
but failed to find him until Saturday, when he managed to ask for a delay to
pay them back.
Quang told Tuoi Tre newspaper
that the firm is struggling with paperwork as Canada has just changed its
policy for international students following the appointment of the new Consul
General to Vietnam in the southern city.
The Canadian schools his firm is working
with demanded a down payment before issuing a letter of acceptance, he
explained on being asked about the deposits, adding that he will check with his
accountants about the admission offers.
But Tuoi Tre has learned that
Canada has not changed its policy for international students, and Canadian
schools often send an offer letter to successful applicants before collecting
any payment from them.
TUOI TRE
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