June is the worst month for all Malaysians. Petrol price hike has a big impact on everyone, directly or indirectly. As a student, our monthly expenditure also sky rocket as the food price increase. Those auntie, uncle if not charging you extra for the same portion of food, they will reduce your food portion or both.
Students already suffer enough within this 2 years since the increment of fees such as Library fee, Tuition fee and Parking fee (what else I miss?). Today, we receive an announcement stating, “All students have to pay an IT services fee of approximately RM100 starting this trimester”
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We from the Students Representative Council, Multimedia University (Malacca Campus) would like to hear some opinions/suggestions from students regarding the matter explained below:
Imposition of IT services fee (RM100)
Finance Division is planning to impose a RM100/year IT service fee on all students starting from the academic year 2008/2009 (this trimester). The fee covers the maintenance fees of MMLS, course registration system, wireless services and other online systems. Besides this, a portion of the fee will be used to upgrade the bandwidth of Melaka campus (from 16 Mbps to 34 Mbps).
Unfortunately, there are several controversial issues:
1. Although the students from both of the campuses will be charged the same fee, Cyberjaya campus will get a better service in terms of bandwidth increment (from 34 Mbps to 100 Mmbps). This is because the hardware of Cyberjaya campus is more advance than us and our hardware is not able to support the 100 Mbps bandwidth (Cyberjaya hardware can support up to 400 mbps while ours can only support up till 100 Mbps).
2. Not every student is using the wireless service.
3. CITS cannot guarantee that after the imposition of the IT services fee, all the flaws that we encountered before (eg. system down during the course registration period) can be solved once and for all.
4. Number of concurrent connections to the web services such as MMLS and course registration may or may not be increased. If it is not increased, the increase in bandwidth would not make much of a difference as the number of users allowed to access the said websites will still remain the same. As such, at high usage periods (i.e. before/during exam for MMLS & course registration days) students will still have the problem of not being able to access the websites. It would be akin to widening the roads but still having the same number of exits – You’ll get to the exits/entrances (i.e. websites) faster. Once there, you’ll have to wait in line (for countless hours) just as before.
Most of the students are not rich, including me. Some of us rely on government loan that provide us just the sufficient amount of money to pay our ever-increase fees. Not to mention the loan doesn’t include our daily expenses. We are still asking money from our parents every month.
RM100 might sounds very little for some of you. If they keep charging for every single things in MMU, we going to end up eating grass. Library fee, parking fee, increase tuition fee. Don’t know when they will impose toilet entrance fee or toilet bowl fee.
You’ll burn a hole in your pocket every time you go do your business.
SAY NO TO IT SERVICE FEE
