Graduating students at Airlink International Aviation College are being obliged to spend a whooping P60,000 before they can march this semester.
An Inquirer report said that the school had obliged all its graduating students to go on a field trip to Cebu province and stay at a five-star hotel and charged them P28,000 each.
Aside from the field trip, each was also obliged to pay P20,000 for the graduation ball and P12,000 for the graduation fee.
Students who didn’t go on the Cebu tour were excluded from the graduation rites. They could not also get their diplomas until each of them submitted a research paper related to various airline flight safety programs, efficiency of domestic and international airport operations based on financial analysis, airport productivity and security measures, among others.
Some parents complained and sought help from columnist Ramon Tulfo about the unnecessary fees. Ramon responded to parents by writing about the parents’ complaints against the school on March 15.
According to Tulfo, parents first confronted Airlink International Aviation College president Geronimo Amurao about the exactions but Amurao allegdly didn’t listen to their complaints but instead narrated how he, a poor boy from Batangas province, became successful and built the school from scratch.
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