They expected talk on fee hike but were told about aid

Over the last few days, about 50 student leaders from NUS received either email or calls from the NUS Office of Student Affairs informing them of a dialogue with Professor Tan Eng Chye, NUS' provost. Headlined ?Meeting with NUS Provost on Tuition Fees for New Cohort', the email wrote that the tuition fees for both undergraduates and graduate students would be revised, and that the coming cohort of academic year 2012/13 would be affected. However Prof Tan spoke about enhancements to the NUS Financial Aid Framework instead at the meeting and students were nonetheless puzzled by the switch in agenda. NUS student leaders said that if there were to be a confirmed fee hike, they would want to hear what NUS had to say. NUS has had tuition fee hikes over the last two years and last year, Singapore citizens who applied as undergraduates to NTU and SMU also had to pay increased fees, as did students enrolling in polytechnics and ITE.