Thanhnien News
A group of students who landed in Singapore with high hopes of getting a good education and part-time work are now subsisting on one meal a day of rice and tomato sauce.
Meanwhile, both their school and the consultancy firm that arranged for the admission deny charges by the students and their families that they had cheated them by making false claims.
Over the past several days, disgruntled, angry and anxious parents of 13 students brought their complaints to Thanh Nien saying their children have been left in the lurch in Singapore.
They said in July they had paid Hanoi-based Study Abroad Consultancy and Construction Company Ltd. (SACC Co.) a total of VND1.3 billion (US$78,100) in fees to enroll their children in a 12-month food and beverage service course at Singapore’s Stamford School of Commercial Studies (SSCS).
But after being sent to Singapore in mid-August, the students discovered SACC had not yet transferred their tuition fees to the Singaporean college, leaving them high and dry in the city state.
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