CBC的报道不太全面
NTV telegram近期也会报道。
而且我们已经得到很多加拿大和美国维权人士的帮助。 为什么留学只就不能Question? 有些人跪着时间太长了吧
有些问题根据我们做的调查我要说明一下
1. the president of the graduate student union was informed that a portion of these special fees, which is $2000 goes back to the ESL department, and ESL confirms that they did take the money for providing English 9992 F course.
However, English 9992 F course is supposed to be free for international students according to the University Calendar.
2. course-based Master’s programs are the only programs offered at Memorial that require students to pay a deposit to enrol in the program. The deposit of $2,000 (CAD) is part of the total $20,282 for the “special fees” and because this portion of the special fees is paid immediately before the students register for or begin to take their classes they are now contractually obligated to pay the remainder of these “special fees.” This means that if a student decided to change programs, even in the first semester of their degree, they are still required to pay 75% of the total cost of educating them over 2 years before they are accepted into the new program.
3. the majority of students who are enrolled in these programs are international students, and most of them are Chinese students. Application to any other program in Memorial is made directly to the university by the students themselves, whether they are from Canada or another foreign nation. However, the applications of Chinese students to these course-based Master’s programs are only accepted through an international consultant agency in China, called Can/Zhong. Requiring Chinese students to apply through this company costs them an extra $3,000+ (CAD) before they are even accepted into the program. Memorial should examine why only these courses require Chinese students to apply through a consulting agency when no other programs offered at the university have such a requirement, and why no other international students are required to use similar consulting agencies, except students from China?
4. Moreover, after repeated attempts to discover what the special fees of these programs are used for, the president of the graduate student union was informed that a portion of these special fees also goes back to the consultant agency. This raises further questions. Why are students being charged a portion of these special fees to pay a consultant agency that they have already been charged to use? And, if students from another foreign country, aside from China, are also being charged the same amount for these “special fees” then is part of their payment also going to a consultant agency for services that were never provided.