screw off lah, nabeh!
Posted at 18:39.03 and filed under aNUS, Rantingsok this doesnt really concern me anymore but.. ———————————
NUSSU NEWSFLASH
Fee Hike
Dear fellow students,
The NUS Students’ Union (NUSSU) met with the University Administration on Friday, 10th February 2006, and was informed of an impending increase in tuition fees. The administration took efforts to explain the rationale of such an increase to us.
Despite our vigorous objection to the fee increase for AY2006/2007, remembering that the last fee increase was in AY2005/2006, the University Administration still deems such a measure necessary in order to keep up with cost increases. NUSSU is also disappointed that despite requests to be more involved in discussions for school policies affecting the students, there is no consultation before this fee hike is announced to the Union. Nevertheless, we are committed to exploring with the University Administration on viable ways of consultative engagement pertaining to school policies affecting our students.
The University Administration has given NUSSU the assurance that it will channel more money for financial aid for needy students in the form of bursaries and to fund new and innovative schemes such as the Subsistence Loan and the Work-Study Assistance scheme. Following the discussion with NUSSU, the administration has agreed to further increase this commitment – in total, the administration will be setting aside an additional $3million for financial aid schemes for AY2006/2007. NUS remains committed to ensuring that no deserving student is denied a tertiary education because of financial difficulty. More information about the financial packages may be obtained at the following link: http://www.nus.edu.sg/registrar/sfau/main.htm
Similarly, NUSSU manages its own NUS Students’ Fund Bursary for needy students, more information of which may be obtained here: http://nussu.nus.edu.sg/~nussf/index.htm
The last round of bursaries and book grants has just been awarded and the next round of applications will be from 1 September 2006 to 30 September 2006.
NUSSU remains committed in upholding the interests and welfare of the students. We value your feedback at (nussu_welfare@yahoo.com.sg) and will encourage active discussions in the IVLE portal, under the link: “Fee Hike Response”.
We thank you for your kind attention to this matter.
Regards, Quek Boon Guan Danny President Executive Committee 27th NUSSU Council
aNUS just screwed our your asses again.. what’s new.. everyone leaves with a larger asshole after life in nus..It doesn’t mean that by providing more bursaries u can alleviate the effects of yet another rise in fees, it also means that for students who are not well-off but not poor enuff to qualify for aid, they are screwed big time.
Knowing how aNUS is run, they will listen to feedback, and “yes yes we understand”. End of day it will be
“We have heard from the student population that most people are opposed to the rise in feeds,but due to our ever increasing need to add more courses, build a nus high school with running track and tennis courts, build a big building for YST, and maintain our admin building which is representative of the fact that we are a top quartile uni (18 drop to 22), we have to raise fees. Those who are rich, pls pay. Those who are poor, no worries, we do a robin hood n take from the rich students to pay for you so that we can say we got action.. Those neither here nor there, well, we would just pretend that u’re not there…”
Na bei!!!
Comment by Hai~Ren — Tuesday, 14 February 2006 @ 19:25.03
NUS sux!
Comment by Boonie — Wednesday, 15 February 2006 @ 22:53.02
whats new? the way the system is run is the same everywhere. just remember the words: WORLD CLASS university.
Comment by Haoxian — Thursday, 16 February 2006 @ 16:49.10