It is a deep problem to use tuition fees to bet. Students who gamble are not just gambling for fun, they are toiling with their future. The supervisors are really right to step in, but forcing it alone won't solve it.
Parents, schools and communities have stronger roles to play in awareness and setting digital boundaries. This is about the system that empowers and profits bad choices not just about the bad choices made.
Off course it's a serious and bothering issue because time and money set out for education get wasted and the moment addiction sets in, it becomes hard to reverse.
Time and money spent on a kid's education will be a waste if the child turns out to be an addict, which is correct. The parent and the community can also try to play a very vital role in the life of a child to educate them about gambling, and the child can still decide to leave them and go into institutions where they are not supervised and decide to choose their own path. As far as a child is of age, every decision they make they should be accountable for because they have the choice to choose their own path.