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- We the international students attending Shandong Jiaotong University both on campus and from our respective home countries request the relevant school authorities to consider an adjustment to tuition and possibly other fees we are due to pay for the coming academic year of our study. We urge the authorities to consider reducing the aforementioned fees due to factors that have adversely affected us as students, the school and the people who sponsor our education and are beyond our control.The COVID - 19 global pandemic is an unprecedented event that has plunged the global economy into a recession which affects us directly in two main ways. Firstly our sponsors are suffering from reduced economic activity in our home countries and so income streams have either reduced in size or been closed off completely due to people losing employment. That being said, our sponsors are to an extent financially more vulnerable than before the pandemic and still have to fulfil their financial obligations to our families and ourselves. We feel this increased financial burden ought to be recognised by the school authorities as the virus was an unforeseen event. Secondly our learning experience has been affected. We have had to attend classes via online platforms that while functional, aren't proper replacements for physical attendance of classes for a number of reasons. For those still in China we face the inadequacies of online lessons such as lack of proper interaction with our teachers which means sometimes it takes longer than anticipated for help to arrive for a certain enquiry about a lesson and we can't always get the right kind of guidance we may need for certain class activities. Students who went home experience difficulties in connecting to classes, contributing or asking questions during lessons and at times cannot even afford data for some lessons as data tends to be expensive for some. These are issues the school cannot rectify but should also consider as unprecedented disruptions that should be considered as valid reasons to reduce fees. On a final note, to our knowledge some schools in China, as well as others around the world, had compensated their students for these unforeseen challenges in the form of refunding their tuition. At this point in time it maybe better for the university to reduce fees for us as it may be too late to refund students. We humbly request the relevant authorities to consider our request as well as the circumstances we are in that are beyond our control.
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Firstly thank you to whoever created petition for the international students. It is very crucial that this petition is acknowledged with sincerity and empathy towards the circumstances we are all faced with. It is very impossible for many of us to go forward with our tuition fee payments at such a tough time. Please do acknowledge this a plea to meet us halfway in regards to that. Many students have not received any online courses to justify their past semesters fees, not a single lesson!
I just think ,they may reduce or just be indulgent especially in this moment ,because our parents aren’t working nowadays.
It’s quite hard and really difficult around this time, and for most parents this news was so unexpected, we need a reduction in our tuition and other expenses. For the betterment of things, also most students might clear their fees faster by doing that. Travel arrangements too for most students back home, all that has to be dealt with by our guardians.
Actually in my final year and we are really struggling with this school because of lack of management or others problems such tuition fees and accommodations fees! Personally, we started our Online classes in May 4th, 2020 just after Labor Day and now they are forcing us to pay for a semester which we didn’t even benefit from - now I wonder how could that be possible ? This school is all in mess and we won’t let this happen the fact of paying tuition fees! We need a fully explanations from the Dean to the teachers why shall we pay fees which we didn’t benefit! OUR FUTURE MATTERS ✊
I humbly request the school authorities to reduce the tuition fees for the international students. None of us saw COVID 19 coming and we've been affected. No one wanted this virus to happen and even the school has suffered in one way or another, it only seems fair that we should pay less since they can't refund us (it's too late for that).
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Strongly agree the fees should be refunded or reduced due to covid 19 pandemic
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- We the international students attending Shandong Jiaotong University both on campus and from our respective home countries request the relevant school authorities to consider an adjustment to tuition and possibly other fees we are due to pay for the coming academic year of our study. We urge the authorities to consider reducing the aforementioned fees due to factors that have adversely affected us as students, the school and the people who sponsor our education and are beyond our control.The COVID - 19 global pandemic is an unprecedented event that has plunged the global economy into a recession which affects us directly in two main ways. Firstly our sponsors are suffering from reduced economic activity in our home countries and so income streams have either reduced in size or been closed off completely due to people losing employment. That being said, our sponsors are to an extent financially more vulnerable than before the pandemic and still have to fulfil their financial obligations to our families and ourselves. We feel this increased financial burden ought to be recognised by the school authorities as the virus was an unforeseen event. Secondly our learning experience has been affected. We have had to attend classes via online platforms that while functional, aren't proper replacements for physical attendance of classes for a number of reasons. For those still in China we face the inadequacies of online lessons such as lack of proper interaction with our teachers which means sometimes it takes longer than anticipated for help to arrive for a certain enquiry about a lesson and we can't always get the right kind of guidance we may need for certain class activities. Students who went home experience difficulties in connecting to classes, contributing or asking questions during lessons and at times cannot even afford data for some lessons as data tends to be expensive for some. These are issues the school cannot rectify but should also consider as unprecedented disruptions that should be considered as valid reasons to reduce fees. On a final note, to our knowledge some schools in China, as well as others around the world, had compensated their students for these unforeseen challenges in the form of refunding their tuition. At this point in time it maybe better for the university to reduce fees for us as it may be too late to refund students. We humbly request the relevant authorities to consider our request as well as the circumstances we are in that are beyond our control.
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They need to carry forward our accommodation fee to the coming semester because we people who went back home did not get a chance to make us of the accommodation we paid for. Its just good as throwing out money down the drain. Tino shandisa maBond
Firstly thank you to whoever created petition for the international students. It is very crucial that this petition is acknowledged with sincerity and empathy towards the circumstances we are all faced with. It is very impossible for many of us to go forward with our tuition fee payments at such a tough time. Please do acknowledge this a plea to meet us halfway in regards to that. Many students have not received any online courses to justify their past semesters fees, not a single lesson!
I just think ,they may reduce or just be indulgent especially in this moment ,because our parents aren’t working nowadays.
It’s quite hard and really difficult around this time, and for most parents this news was so unexpected, we need a reduction in our tuition and other expenses. For the betterment of things, also most students might clear their fees faster by doing that. Travel arrangements too for most students back home, all that has to be dealt with by our guardians.
Actually in my final year and we are really struggling with this school because of lack of management or others problems such tuition fees and accommodations fees! Personally, we started our Online classes in May 4th, 2020 just after Labor Day and now they are forcing us to pay for a semester which we didn’t even benefit from - now I wonder how could that be possible ? This school is all in mess and we won’t let this happen the fact of paying tuition fees! We need a fully explanations from the Dean to the teachers why shall we pay fees which we didn’t benefit! OUR FUTURE MATTERS ✊
I humbly request the school authorities to reduce the tuition fees for the international students. None of us saw COVID 19 coming and we've been affected. No one wanted this virus to happen and even the school has suffered in one way or another, it only seems fair that we should pay less since they can't refund us (it's too late for that).
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They need to carry forward our accommodation fee to the coming semester because we people who went back home did not get a chance to make us of the accommodation we paid for. Its just good as throwing out money down the drain. Tino shandisa maBond