National University students assure that because of the institution they are about to lose their scholarships

The Institution of Higher Education granted its scholarship students of the Master in History and Theory of Art, Architecture and the City a period of less than twelve hours to pay approximately five million pesos corresponding to the first payment tuition fees, with the promise to return the money within a month.

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Five of the students who have benefited from the postgraduate program are said to be about to lose their scholarships and the possibility of continuing their studies because National University gave notice until yesterday at 6:00 p.m. that they should get almost the full value of the registration if they wanted to continue in their training process.

“The directives of the institution ensure that later they will return the money corresponding to the economic aid from which they are beneficiaries.”mentions a student beneficiary who prefers to keep her identity confidential.

half-yearly on Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Arts announces the opening of calls to be assigned Scholarships for graduate studentswhich have the advantages of 100% exemption from the payment of academic fees and in some cases, monthly economic support of two monthly legal minimum salaries in force for each beneficiary for four months per semester, as long as the quality of education is maintained.

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Many of the economic contributions that are provided to students and interested persons also generate permanent support during the training process.

In return, scholarship holders must perform educational support tasks. Students awarded the scholarships must have a cumulative grade point average equal to or greater than 4.0 on a scale of 0.0 to 5.0 and must pay the value of the administrative costs, which are not covered by the scholarships. Scholarships.

In previous semesters, payment receipts for scholarship students they had to be issued twice; the first, (due to a system error) for the total value of the tuition fees corresponding to 250 days of the current legal minimum wage. And, later, the adjustments were made and the students canceled only the value corresponding to the administrative rightswhich for the last semester was $1,258,211.

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Therefore, for this semester, as for the previous ones, students were able to receive a payment receipt for the total value of the registration and they were assured that the corresponding adjustments would be made later so that they could only pay the value of the administrative fees for 2023.

“At the beginning of February, I contacted the coordination of the master to request payment and by e-mail they told me not to worry, that the receipts would be reissued soon and that they would let me know”, comments one of the victims who prefers to keep his identity confidential.

As the scholarship recipients were announced in January, the students, as usual, were ready to pay the corresponding amount. However, yesterday in the morning, the coordination of the master sent them an e-mail in which they indicated it.

“The first receipt that was generated cannot be adjusted, so we will have to return the value that would be given for the scholarship. Therefore, I ask you to send me the payment medium to communicate with the secretariat.

“It is very serious because yesterday the receipts were already expired. In other words, we had to cancel, in addition to the value of the registration, more than one million additional pesos, corresponding to the penalty for late payment ” . comments another of the interns.

Faced with the complaints, the university contacted the beneficiaries around 6:00 p.m. on February 15, via email saying that “Because the date for timely payment of postgraduate receipts expired yesterday, the Faculty Secretariat will generate an exception for students who have benefited from the Scholarships in order to extend the payment deadline until tomorrow THURSDAY FEBRUARY 16, 2023 so that they can thus make the payment of the first installment without extemporaneity”.

This implies that students who expected to pay around 1,500,000 pesos of dollars, had to obtain more than double this value in less than twelve hours, in order to continue their studies.

“In my case, the value to cancel without extemporaneous payment is almost four million pesos which I don’t have. When I told them that I couldn’t get that amount of money, they told me that if I didn’t pay they would block my account. academic history and me they removed the purseso I could not continue studying this academic semester” added another concerned student.

Faced with the impossibility of obtaining the economic amount to be paid, the pedagogical directives mentioned to the students that they could lose the academic scholarship. At the moment, the fellows are preparing letters to inform the other commissions of the situation.