{"id":120560,"date":"2021-07-05T02:36:23","date_gmt":"2021-07-04T19:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/ntu-international-students-allowed-to-retain-housing-on-campus\/"},"modified":"2021-07-18T17:03:09","modified_gmt":"2021-07-18T10:03:09","slug":"ntu-international-students-allowed-to-retain-housing-on-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/ntu-international-students-allowed-to-retain-housing-on-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"NTU international students allowed to retain housing on campus"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nNTU international students allowed to retain housing on campusNTU has now allowed international students who are current residents on campus to keep their places \u201con an exceptional basis, regardless of their hall points. Photo: Google Street View
\nNanyang Technological University (NTU) has now allowed international students who are current residents on campus to keep their places \u201con an exceptional basis, regardless of their hall points, in view of the challenges to secure alternative off-campus housing due to COVID-19\u201d, reported TODAY.
\nThe move comes after NTU\u2019s imposition of a student hostels quota due to COVID-19 restrictions caused an uproar among students.
\nIn fact, the petition for NTU to reconsider students\u2019 applications already gathered over 4,000 signatures by midnight on 1 July.
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\nSingaporean students at NTU, who had their housing application rejected, acknowledge that foreign students were in a worse situation than them, but shared that they also felt frustrated since they had not been informed of the new on-campus housing quota.
\n\u201cWe have since carefully reviewed the hall capacity, bearing in mind that vaccinations are now well underway and there are other safe management measures that we intend to apply,\u201d said NTU as quoted by TODAY.
\n\u201cHence, we have opened up more hall places and reached out to new successful applicants today.\u201d
\nIn view of the school\u2019s two-year guaranteed hall stay policy, applicants who will be in Year 1 and 2 will get a hall place.
\nNTU revealed that hall places will also be allocated to active hall residents with full points for hall participation.
\n\u201cUnder NTU\u2019s campus housing policy, new students are guaranteed on-campus housing in a hall for the first two years of study. Senior students will have to take part in co-curricular activities on campus to secure points that qualify them for housing in the following year,\u201d said TODAY.
\nThe Hall Admin Offices will contact students in the next week on their room arrangement, said NTU, noting that students may be assigned to a different room or hall to adhere to COVID-19 regulations.
\nInternational students welcomed the university\u2019s decision, with one student saying he is now \u201cdefinitely less worried\u201d.
\n\u201cWhile I\u2019m relieved that NTU has been prompt in its reply in this matter, some of the international students have not received the email yet, so I\u2019m concerned if they might be left out,\u201d said a 23-year-old Vietnamese student, who wanted to be identified only as HV.
\nAnother Vietnamese student, Nora Le, is \u201cpartially relieved as more or less, there is an official response from school\u201d.
\n\u201cAnd I know that finally, I can continue studying without worrying about the expensive living fees outside the school,\u201d the third-year linguistics and multilingual studies major told TODAY.
\n\u201cI am still right to choose NTU in my studies abroad. I understand that there is no perfect university. But what I need from a university is its timely reaction to the needs of international students who do not enjoy many privileges when choosing to pursue their degree overseas.\u201d
\nPei Chenge, a 25-year-old Chinese student, said she is also \u201cvery relieved\u201d.
\n\u201cAs I was looking for rental flats, prices have been rocketing and demand is high. So I was worried that I wouldn\u2019t be able to get a place to stay. But the email is rather vague so I still don\u2019t dare to take the risk and cancel all the viewings,\u201d the fourth-year undergraduate in NTU\u2019s public policy and global affairs programme said.
\n\u201cI hope NTU can confirm our rooms as soon as possible,\u201d Pei told TODAY.
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