Students are forced to participate in a commercial activity
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Anonymous
(Querist) 05 March 2019
This query is : Resolved
This is to help a student. She is doing a diploma for Air Hostess training from a Mumbai based institute. Last week institute held a seminar on the name of Customer Interface Program and asked students to signed a letter that they are agree to participate.
Now they are sending students to various junior colleges to target their future students. They asking students to promote institute and collect personal data, and that too during their board examination paper. They don’t have permission to perform this activity from respective jr. colleges hence students are not allowed to enter the premises and standing outside the premises for more than 5-6 hours to collect the data. Institute has also threatened them that if they will fill wrong data then a certificate will not be provided.
Institute has not provided any facility for this activity as well as they are also not allowing to wear Institute's ID card. 12th student & their parents are objecting to this activity. They are behaving rude.
When she complained and refused to participate and told that "This is a commercial activity and has hidden agenda to use students to promote institute & search for future students. We were not supposed to bear all this, we have paid you to teach us and not to use us for commercial activity, I will participate only if it would have purely education purpose."
Institute has sent her a letter saying you have signed a letter, you have also signed student agreement at the time of admission and you are bound to participate in this activity else institute will provide a certificate. Please suggest what she can do here.
Please suggest
KISHAN DUTT KALASKAR
(Expert) 06 March 2019
Dear Student,
You are suppose to such activities which indirectly promotes the admissions of your Institutions. Get all the supporting recordings and lodge a complaint with the affiliation authorities and see that affiliation of your Institute is derecognized.
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