The Ministry of Education has set up subcommittees to look into guardians’ complaints about fee structures at private and foreign schools across the Kingdom’s provinces. The committees will be empowered to rule on any complaint from guardians about the private schools in which their children are studying, a local daily reported Saturday. The ministry has warned private and foreign schools against imposing additional fees unless they have the ministry’s approval. In the meantime, a preparatory committee at the ministry began receiving petitions for fee hikes from private schools on Saturday. The committee will accept such petitions until March 27. “It is the right of any private school to demand higher tuition fees this year even if they have hiked fees in the past,” said a source at the ministry. He said reasons for charging higher fees include the introduction of new academic projects and the signing of academic contracts with education companies. A former committee used to approve 95 percent of requests for fee hikes, the source said. “However, subcommittees at provincial education administrations are now striving to regulate fee hikes within certain parameters and guidelines and thus reject hikes without compelling reason,” the source said. In the meantime, private school owners have begun registering their applications for fee hikes online. Complaints from schools will be received for 15 days from March 14 to 28, the source said.
Posted on: Sun, 02 Feb 2014 05:05:38 +0000
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