A Da Nang university has surprised its students by suddenly hiking fees
for repeated courses in a bid, an official says, to encourage them to study
harder.
Students at the Da Nang
University of Physical Education and Sports (DUPES) are now required to pay
VND40,000 (US$2) per class period of a repeated course, which may make its
tuition overtake that for a whole semester in some cases.
Q.H., a sophomore, complains he
will have to pay VND3 million ($150) to re-take a course in English that
includes 75 class periods while a whole semester at DUPES just costs around
VND2.3 million ($115).
“That is too expensive,” H.
whines, “we can’t stand it, as we also have to cover the cost for our sports
training equipment every month, which is already sky-high.”
Another second-year student, L.A.
has been like a cat on hot bricks since hearing about the new fee.
“My family back in the
countryside would be unable to earn that much money for me just to repeat the
English course,” she says.
And neither would the families of
her fourteen other classmates, who are to sign up for the same course again.
In another case, a basketball
major says he will have to pay as much as VND13 million ($650) for six modules
he has failed so far.
“We never imagined the fee would
be that high,” the student says. “This is completely unexpected.”
Nguyen Nhat Hung, vice chief of
academic affairs, said the university previously multiplied the number of class
periods by VND30,000 ($1.5) and then charged tuition after dividing the product
by the number of course repeaters.
Hung explained that the fee hike
was meant to encourage students to try harder in their studies.
“There are some students who have
to repeat 7-8 modules a year,” Hung said, “so that is a clear sign of
unwillingness to study.
We simply want them to focus far
more on their training to avoid repeating that many.”
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