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Twitter up in arms after LUMS introduces fee hike during COVID-19 crisis

Students and members of the LUMS faculty took to social media on Tuesday to register their strong protest against the university increasing its fee as the coronavirus pandemic continues to have disastrous effects on businesses and the overall economic situation of the country.

Taking to Twitter, netizens voiced their strong anger and disapproval over what some of them claimed was a 40% hike in fee. However, the backlash on social media caused LUMS to took to Twitter and stated that the fee hike “is entirely consistent with prior years and took into account extraordinary increases in inflation, energy costs and currency evaluation”.

The university said that the fee increase determined for 2020 was 13pc “which we will monitor in determining the next fee card”.

Here are some reactions to the tweet:

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