University education does not belong to compulsory education. The ideal of "big pot education" is really beautiful, but in the end it often becomes synonymous with "small stove education".
Therefore, although the state will allocate funds, tuition fees are also an important source of funds for universities to maintain their own operations. Article 10 of the Regulations on the Management of Students in Colleges and Universities revised and implemented in 2005 clearly stipulates: "Those who fail to pay tuition fees according to the regulations of the school or do not meet the registration conditions will not be enrolled."
However, Yantai University's "debt collection policy" is not without doubt. First of all, it is difficult to determine what is "malicious arrears of tuition fees"; Secondly, it is reported that this is a "temporary measure". The staff quoted Article 10 of the Regulations on the Administration of Students in Colleges and Universities: "Since I am not allowed to register, of course I am not qualified to take the exam." This kind of reasoning is untenable. Those students who are in arrears with tuition fees do not register, so there is no problem of not taking the exam. If the school has allowed those students to register, it is not appropriate to suddenly introduce a "make-up exam policy". In the latter case, the school has given up the legal right to require students to pay tuition fees before registration, but it is suspected of "settling accounts after autumn" in another indigenous way.
The crux of the problem is not "settling accounts after the autumn", but that this policy may "hurt the pond fish". It is reported that 20% of the 23,000 students in Yantai University are poor students. In order to find out the real situation of these students, the school specially organized personnel to investigate in more than a dozen counties and cities, and the results were surprising. Nearly 5% of students' families are not very difficult. Probably on the basis of this survey, the school decided that the so-called "poor students" whose family circumstances are not very difficult belong to "malicious arrears of tuition fees", so it introduced the policy of recovering the arrears. However, the circular also said that more than 20% of the students in the school owe more than 6,543,807 yuan in tuition fees, involving thousands of students. After the introduction of the measures, the school has recovered tuition fees of more than 6,543,800 yuan. As long as you have a certain mathematical ability, you will find problems. The so-called "students who maliciously pay tuition fees" (5%) account for 1/4 of the poor students (20%), but the tuition fees recovered (1 more than 0 million) are1of the tuition fees owed (170 million). So, is the school investigating "students who maliciously owe tuition fees" or all poor students?
Article 10 of the Regulations on the Management of Students in Colleges and Universities stipulates that "those who fail to pay tuition fees according to the regulations of the school will not be registered", and also stipulates that "students with financial difficulties can apply for loans or other forms of financial assistance and register after going through relevant procedures." However, in the Interim Measures for the Administration of National Student Loans of Yantai University, although Article 1 stipulates that "students with financial difficulties should be helped to complete their studies smoothly", Article 6 stipulates that "students applying for loans should study hard and get good grades". Then, is it impossible for a student whose family is really poor, who doesn't study hard and has moderate grades to apply for a loan? He can't afford the tuition because he can't get a loan. Doesn't he have the right to take the exam?
"Student loan" is not a "scholarship". The former is mainly aimed at poor students, while the latter is aimed at excellent students. If the two are confused, students can't simply be called "malicious" if they don't pay tuition fees.
Yantai University has the right to ask students to pay tuition fees, but it needs to be implemented in accordance with relevant procedures, not at will. Universities can't treat all poor students as "students who maliciously default on tuition fees", let alone set up various obstacles for poor students to apply for student loans, otherwise it will only appear the phenomenon of "settling accounts after the autumn".