I AM a returning student to The Mico University College. We were warned that come September the fees would be increased by 10 to 15 per cent. To our shock, we, diploma students, discovered that we would have to pay $190,000 if we live off campus or $270 000 if we live in the hostel. What adds to my dismay is that if students receive student loans, they are still required to pay 50 per cent of the school fee with cash or they cannot register for the next school year! Sometimes, I wonder if the heads of the college are really concerned with providing good quality education at a reasonable price or if they are only concerned with how to weasel every drop of money out of us while we are there? Yes, times are hard and, yes, they have other responsibilities, but what about us students? Where are we to get money from?

Qualification

A teaching diploma will be useless as of 2010, and that is the qualification I am currently pursuing.

What kind of pay will I get with a useless diploma? And when I have to repay student loan, how will I manage? It is unfair to ask us students to pay so much for something that will have no use by the time we graduate. It is frustrating and very unfair! They say we all should try to get a higher education but they forget to tell us we have to pay even higher to get it.

I am, etc.,

Alex Rowe

alrowe2002@yahoo.com