The*Asterisk

By Naheeda Suddoo
dragon_241291@hotmail.com

Part of the responsibility of being a student, we need to be well aware of our tuition fee structures. It is to my surprise that many of the engineering students have failed to notice a glaring error in this semester’s fees.

A fee schedule is given to every enrolled engineering student, with it mentioning the assessment fee, the resource fee and the tuition fee. Slight fee changes are expected throughout a 4-year degree program such as a raise in resource fee.

However, in the most recent fee schedule, the fees were changed to reflect a two semester system; longer semesters naturally mean higher fees. The semesters were proposed as such: January until July, and July until December.

According to the current Head of Program, the two semester system had been discussed and the Faculty of Engineering and Technology (FOEAT) were not in favour of the system. Despite this, INTI printed a fee schedule implementing this system.

Then a problem arose concerning those who enrolled in the UK degree transfer program. A two-semester system would cause them miss their transfer to UK for the September semester. It was a big a problem for INTI to neglect, so engineering returned to its three-semester system.

Come enrolment day, many students failed to notice that they were in fact paying fees based on the two-semester system. Faculty members and finance office staff were left equally baffled by the mistake.

Unfortunately, the students are the ones paying the price for INTI’s mistake. The Asterisk will follow up with FOEAT on this matter.