By Mark Harvey, CBC News | Link to Article
An Edmonton man says a small B.C. college which caters to students from Africa wasted six months of his time and owes him $4,500.
By Mark Harvey, CBC News | Link to Article
An Edmonton man says a small B.C. college which caters to students from Africa wasted six months of his time and owes him $4,500.
Derek Sabum says in March 2014 he was willing to invest tens of thousands of dollars to bring his three siblings from Cameroon to get a Canadian education.
Sabum says he chose Fraser Valley Community College (FVCC) because it was recommended by a fellow Cameroonian and he understood it would help with their visa applications.
But Sabum said FVCC bungled their registrations and when he complained its owner accused him of making threats, told him to go elsewhere and kept $4,500 of the $6,797 he had paid in application fees and tuition installments.
“I think they ripped us off,” Sabum said. “This is real strange that something like this can happen in Canada. This should stop. This is not the image of Canada.”
The college says its refund policies are clearly spelled out on its website.