Tuition fees hike
"On 14th February 2006, the University announced a fee hike of 3 percent for undergraduate studies with effect from academic year 2006/2007."
The "world-class" University has done it again. Informing students of tuition fees hike through an email circular! How sincere! It goes to show alot about the Univeristy Adminstration, impressing upon the student body that THEY DON'T GIVE A DAMN TO WHAT WE THINK, and we do it their way.
Reasons for the fees hike are none other than to cover rising costs. Cover costs of what? Show us what are we exactly paying for? Aren't the fee hike a year back enough to cover costs? Had inflation rate shot up in a period of 2 years that it needs review in such short period? Or is it due to the myopia of the leadership lacking the ability to foresee increasing cost 2years back. World Class University.
Had Coporatisation of the University increased its competition on the market to employed better lecturers, thus increasing cost, which means to say, increase staff's salary? If so, then I seriously doubt what kind of lecturer's are they employing out there, lecturers who preach and not teach, tutors who aint so sure themselves, well this does not apply to all, there are still good ones out there, and as far as im concern, all the good lecturers have gone on to NTU, whats left in NUS are the remnants. World Class Univeristy.
Building a outstandingly grand University Cultural Centre to promote the arts, while its students spent hours trying to bid for modules and register for tutorial to no avail, it took the adminstration close to 24hrs to resolve this system bottleneck problem while students waited invain, generating stress uncalled for totally. Yes! We should pay the IT consultants more, so that they will sit around not knowing what went wrong when CORS screws up! World Class University.
Following that email circular sent out by NUS admin, came another email from Danny Quek, President NUSSU. NUSSU has done their best in objecting the fees hikes. Well, done their best, apparently not. School Admin informed NUSSU of the fees hike on the 10th Feb, finalise the hike on the 14th feb. 4days, nothing was done, student bodies did not even know there is a fee hike on the talk. What is the point of gathering views now that its finalised, why not do it before. Outstanding. NUSSU, from a world class university.
NUSSU set up a forum on IVLE to collect views and opinions about this fees hike. Tonnes of post for the past 24hrs. Condeming views of NUSSU and the School Admin. To which I care not. What I am concern is the inactivity of the Union. The forum being set up by the union, sees its 1st post by their President only after more than 24hrs, to reiterate the point that NUSSU is against the idea of the fees hike. Danny, its time to be a leader as in a leader per se, not a leader on transcripts and testimonials only.
Let's turn our eyes on the local media, and see how they deceive ignorant Singaporeans into believing that students are supportive of this fee hikes.
3 more days to the budget report 2006. We shall see in conjuction to this what other hikes and goodies in return are there pre-installed for us Singaporeans. Maybe something like this would goes, "in view of the recent increment in tuition fees, blar blar blar, the government had forked out how many millions of dollars to help who and who....blar blar blar..." Seems like an excellent election tactics ya?! And parents will go, the government is helping my son get through Uni education, hmmm not bad...Crapz....
Well, to conclude, I can go on writing pages and pages on this topic, probably I can draft out my thesis by doing so, but so? All I can do is blabber on and on but WHO CARES?! The authorities will pretend they had never seen what its people say or write, unless it is of a defamating nature to them then they will sue till you are bankrupt, so that you do not meet the pre-requit to run for elections against them. Smart move.
What ever it is, life just goes on, constituted under the "Pay And Pay" act, we will fulfill our role as model citizens and continue paying our lives off....Such cynism.
Quote of the day: "NUS remains committed to ensuring that no deserving student is denied a tertiary education because of financial difficulty".
Sorry, I do mean JOKE OF THE DAY.
PS: Happy 22nd Birthday Huiyin! Enjoy your day!
Hope everyone had enjoyed your Valentines Day!
The "world-class" University has done it again. Informing students of tuition fees hike through an email circular! How sincere! It goes to show alot about the Univeristy Adminstration, impressing upon the student body that THEY DON'T GIVE A DAMN TO WHAT WE THINK, and we do it their way.
Reasons for the fees hike are none other than to cover rising costs. Cover costs of what? Show us what are we exactly paying for? Aren't the fee hike a year back enough to cover costs? Had inflation rate shot up in a period of 2 years that it needs review in such short period? Or is it due to the myopia of the leadership lacking the ability to foresee increasing cost 2years back. World Class University.
Had Coporatisation of the University increased its competition on the market to employed better lecturers, thus increasing cost, which means to say, increase staff's salary? If so, then I seriously doubt what kind of lecturer's are they employing out there, lecturers who preach and not teach, tutors who aint so sure themselves, well this does not apply to all, there are still good ones out there, and as far as im concern, all the good lecturers have gone on to NTU, whats left in NUS are the remnants. World Class Univeristy.
Building a outstandingly grand University Cultural Centre to promote the arts, while its students spent hours trying to bid for modules and register for tutorial to no avail, it took the adminstration close to 24hrs to resolve this system bottleneck problem while students waited invain, generating stress uncalled for totally. Yes! We should pay the IT consultants more, so that they will sit around not knowing what went wrong when CORS screws up! World Class University.
Following that email circular sent out by NUS admin, came another email from Danny Quek, President NUSSU. NUSSU has done their best in objecting the fees hikes. Well, done their best, apparently not. School Admin informed NUSSU of the fees hike on the 10th Feb, finalise the hike on the 14th feb. 4days, nothing was done, student bodies did not even know there is a fee hike on the talk. What is the point of gathering views now that its finalised, why not do it before. Outstanding. NUSSU, from a world class university.
NUSSU set up a forum on IVLE to collect views and opinions about this fees hike. Tonnes of post for the past 24hrs. Condeming views of NUSSU and the School Admin. To which I care not. What I am concern is the inactivity of the Union. The forum being set up by the union, sees its 1st post by their President only after more than 24hrs, to reiterate the point that NUSSU is against the idea of the fees hike. Danny, its time to be a leader as in a leader per se, not a leader on transcripts and testimonials only.
Let's turn our eyes on the local media, and see how they deceive ignorant Singaporeans into believing that students are supportive of this fee hikes.
3 more days to the budget report 2006. We shall see in conjuction to this what other hikes and goodies in return are there pre-installed for us Singaporeans. Maybe something like this would goes, "in view of the recent increment in tuition fees, blar blar blar, the government had forked out how many millions of dollars to help who and who....blar blar blar..." Seems like an excellent election tactics ya?! And parents will go, the government is helping my son get through Uni education, hmmm not bad...Crapz....
Well, to conclude, I can go on writing pages and pages on this topic, probably I can draft out my thesis by doing so, but so? All I can do is blabber on and on but WHO CARES?! The authorities will pretend they had never seen what its people say or write, unless it is of a defamating nature to them then they will sue till you are bankrupt, so that you do not meet the pre-requit to run for elections against them. Smart move.
What ever it is, life just goes on, constituted under the "Pay And Pay" act, we will fulfill our role as model citizens and continue paying our lives off....Such cynism.
Quote of the day: "NUS remains committed to ensuring that no deserving student is denied a tertiary education because of financial difficulty".
Sorry, I do mean JOKE OF THE DAY.
PS: Happy 22nd Birthday Huiyin! Enjoy your day!
Hope everyone had enjoyed your Valentines Day!
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