VietNamNet Bridge – A lot of students weep bitterly not because
they failed the university entrance exams, but because they cannot afford the
tuitions which have unexpectedly increased.
On August 20, 2012, the
representative office of the Ministry of Education and Training received a
woman, who introduced herself as the parent of a student who has passed the
entrance exam to the Nguyen Tat Thanh University.
The woman, after weeping and
moaning for a long time, entreated the officers to help her settle the problem
she was facing.
The woman was not happy because
her son passed the university entrance exam, but she does not have money to pay
for his tuitions.
Some days ago, she received a
notice from the Nguyen Tat Thanh University which informed that her son passed
the entrance exam to the school and asked the boy to turn up at the school to
follow necessary admission procedures. The notice also informed the sums of
money she had to pay for tuitions.
The mother has just realized that
her son has been admitted to the high quality training class for which he would
have to pay 15.5 million dong a year. Since she cannot afford such a high
tuition level, she has decided not to study at the school. What she wanted was
the mark report certificate with which her son would register to study at
another school.
On August 22, the same office
received another parent, who asked for the mark report certificate. They boy
did not want to study at the Hoa Sen University, though he was accepted by the
school, simply because of the overly high tuitions.
The students of the information
technology faculty of the HCM City University of Technology complained that the
tuitions have been increasing too rapidly, from 330,000 dong per credit in 2009
to 430,000 dong, not including surcharges.
The students, who enter the
school this year, would have to pay 460,000 dong per credit. Though the
tuitions have been raised steadily, the material facilities have not been
upgraded, while the lab of the school still does not have enough conditions to
serve students’ practice.
Replying to the complaint, Kieu
Xuan Hung, Deputy President of the school, said that the school did not collect
additional fees in previous years. However, since the school plans to replace
all the computers and install air conditioners in the lab, information
technology students would have to pay additional fees, equal to 10 percent of
the tuitions.
However, the students still have
expressed their displeasure about the decision, saying that the tuitions cover
all kinds of expenses already, while students should not be asked to pay more
money.
Under the current laws, the
tuitions for state owned schools are fixed by the Ministry of Education and
Training. Meanwhile, the state owned schools which follow the self-autonomy
finance mechanism, and non-state owned schools, can define the tuitions
themselves. However, the tuition levels must be made public, so that students
can consider the training costs to choose schools to study.
In fact, very few schools
published the information about tuition levels on their official websites. The
information was also not found in the book “Things to know about the enrolment
of universities and junior colleges 2012”. Only when students were called to
school, did they know how much they would have to pay.
The HCM City University of
Technology, for example, did not mention the additional fees in relating
documents. Meanwhile, the Nguyen Tat Thanh University only gave a general
notice that university students would have to pay 14.4 million dong a year,
while junior college students 10.7 million dong.
Compiled by C. V
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