After being fined VND75 million (USD3,565) for violating government education regulations, Raffles International College Hanoi has offered to reimburse any unhappy students.
Raffles Hanoi is headquartered at 106 Ton Duc Thang Street
Raffles communications officer Do Thi Tra My, told DTiNews that they will halt training programmes for all students who registered to studying during January.
Plans to resume training will be announced to all students two weeks before the start of classes, Tra My noted.
According to Tra My, the school is co-ordinating with the Vietnamese Ministry of Education and Training to work out solutions in the best interest of the students.
Returning student fees
Alex Quah Ban Thong, Director of Raffles International Training Centre Hanoi, said, “We are mulling over different solutions to the problems. We will announce our plans after receiving approval from the Ministry of Education and Training.”
He explained that the centre had failed to meet the stringent local requirements that forced foreign academic institutions to have to partner with Vietnamese academic institutions when offering tertiary education.
Raffles Hanoi has proposed three solutions to the problems. In the first proposal, the school intends to halt all its training operations until all required procedures are completed.
Under the second plan, the school hope to facilitate their current students to pursue their study at other Raffles schools in other countries with the same tuition fees as applied in Hanoi, thereby bypassing the government’s objections and making a mockery of the regulation.
As the last resort, Raffles Hanoi will return student fees if they want to cancel their study plan at the school.
Students want to continue their study
Students and parents receive consultation on their future courses at the centre
According to the centre, most students and their parents want to continue studying at the school.
Fined for violating training stringent regulations
The Ministry of Education and Training said Raffles Hanoi had co-operated with foreign-invested schools in Vietnam to organise joint training programmes at a tertiary education level.
Since it was licensed in 2006, the centre has enrolled 628 students.
Of the total students, 238 have graduated from the school while the rest are pursuing studies under joint training programmes with the college’s sister institutes in Singapore and Australia.