KARACHI: The banners and stickers on car bumpers and windshields read ‘No fee till low fee’ and ‘Stop thinking of parents as ATMs’...
And the desperate parents gathered outside the Karachi Press Club on Tuesday chanted similar slogans...
APROPOS of Faisal Bari’s article ‘Anti-competitive practices’ (April 24), it is unfortunate that parents are willing to pay high fees but never ask the authorities to justify the high charges...
IT is a matter of concern that private schools all over the country charge fees for summer vacations...
The schools have started collecting in advance fees for June and July, with no regulatory check in operation...
ISLAMABAD: A large number of parents staged a protest in the city on Sunday against the private schools which suddenly and arbitrarily increased fees of schoolchildren...
”Some parents have filed complaints with high government offices that while the inflation rate is between 5 and 7 per cent, the private schools have increased their fees by up to 18 per cent...
ISLAMABAD: Following protests in major cities over the exorbitant fees charged by private schools, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif finally took notice of the campaign by affected parents and ordered that the chairman of the body designated to deal with this issue be appointed without delay...
“There is so much unrest among parents due to an increase in monthly fees by private schools and, unfortunately, the government is not doing enough...
A group of famous private schools increases the school fee every year, particularly without any corresponding increase in the quality of education...
We call upon the government to create monitoring authority to regulate private schools, especially the fees it can take and enforce it...
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court has been approached for the cancellation of registration of private schools receiving exaggerated fees and for setting a fee structure for schools...
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, apparently putting his foot down, has ordered that no private schools should raise their fees in the year 2015...
The PM’s order comes on the heels of an ordinance, issued by the Punjab government, which also bars private schools from raising their fees this year...
However, despite repeated reminders, there was no response from the CEOs and directors of City School, Beaconhouse, Elementary Montessori School, Headstart School, Roots Millennium School, the Lahore ALMA, LACAS and Salamat School System...
“Therefore, the CCP has decided to use its powers and direct the school managements to provide the required information by September 28...
Mr Javedan, the head of Private Schools Association, came on TV to explain that 97pc of his school members have a reasonable fee structure and that only a handful of three per cent are doing this ‘exorbitant’ fee hike on their own...
As for educational standards in these schools, let me assure these mothers one school is as bad as the other...
At a consultative workshop on ‘Fee Determination and Quality of Education Parameters for Private Schools’ Junaid Akhlaq, the PEIRA chairperson, said the regulatory body had been working to regulate school fee structures...
They said fees should be capped at a certain level because there is currently no maximum fee limit in place...
The Supreme Court on Thursday took up a number of appeals against decisions handed down by different high courts over exorbitant fees charged by private schools in the country...
The Islamabad High Court had recently barred private schools altogether from collecting fees during summer vacations...
ISLAMABAD: A subcommittee of the National Assembly Standing Committee on Federal Education and Professional Training on Monday directed the Private Educational Institutions Regulatory Authority (Peira) to implement the Supreme Court ruling that decided that private schools would charge monthly tuition fees in accordance with the baseline fee from January 2017...
The subcommittee said the SC’s landmark judgement had decided that...
Members of parent associations protested against what they said unfair calculation of fees by the District Regulatory Authority (DRA)...
DRA says action will be taken against any school found guilty of violationYasir Qureshi expressed his concern over the fee calculation criterion and said the fee structure declared in these letters were higher than it was paid by the parents in January 2019...