Tuitions soar, doors to universities close for some studentsStudents of Hanoi Economics University are criticising the school’s board of management’s decision to raise tuition, commencing from the 2016-2017 academic year. If the amount of money is used to fund my study, how will my family live?” he wrote.However, schools have no intention to reconsider the decisions. This means that he may have to pay VND19-26.5 million a year, much higher than the VND14 million he had to pay last year.“I know the tuition will be increasing as planned. But I cannot imagine tuition would soar so dramatically,” she said.“A lot of friends of mine said they are going to register to study as many credits as possible this year, because they fear the tuition will even rise more sharply the next year,” she said.On NEU Confessions, the school’s fanpage, there is high tuition. Pham Hong Chuong, vice rector of the Hanoi Economics University, told Infornet in an interview to the newspaper that the school strictly observed legal documents and fulfilled its commitments when drawing up the plan on raising tuitions.He affirmed that the tuition set by the school is not the highest compared with other state-owned schools, though it is the leading school in Vietnam in economics training.NLD

Source: VietNamNet News July 28, 2016 23:48 UTC