The Education Department in Muzaffarabad has issued a strict ban on private educational institutions demanding fees directly from students. A formal notification has been circulated, clarifying that fee-related matters are solely the responsibility of parents or guardians, not children.
The department stated that asking students to bring or submit fees is against child welfare principles and violates the educational code of conduct. All reminders and discussions about pending dues must only be directed to parents.
The notification further outlined that children cannot be asked by teachers or staff to deposit fees either inside or outside classrooms, nor can announcements related to fee collection be made in schools.
Additionally, schools have been instructed not to reveal the financial background of any student’s family, and no child should be denied classroom access due to non-payment of fees. According to the guidelines, fee collection will be handled exclusively by the accounts departments of private institutions, keeping students completely out of the process.
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Yes this is a good option.semester system is best
If a parent didn’t submit fee on time,and uses delay tactics then ?
The notification is just for the sake of notification only. What measures will be taken against such irregularities. No penalty has been described by the authorities over such issues. Secondly private educational institutes are not secure for teachers like other private organizations such banking and other private companies, etc where employees get other bonuses, allowances, benefits and gratuity. They are not made bound to follow private employment rules and frequently found violating private employment policies.
They are free to play with the destinies of the employees.
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What are you? Stupid or something? A child can keep attending school while the parents ghost the administration? The school cant strike the child off, nor share the reason if struck by any chance and nor the parents can be communicated?
What do you think schools run on? Fricking hashish farming? Which charter of governance does this relate to? What support does government offer to these private schools? Come on. This can’t be real.
If parents ghost the government THEN the child will be expelled or suspended until the parents pay the fees this is mainly to stop staff from pressuring the children
U shifa using not good language. U doing no help to the cause of education.
It’s a school, not a business. Unfortunately private schools take advantage of their lack of accountability. Parents “ghosting” a school is rare but schools resort to manipulation on the flimsiest of excuses and students suffer the most. Gone are the days when school owners/directors had integrity. This is a good measure to protect the students.
Private schools are established as a business in Pakistan and they are the most profitable business in this country. Health and education should not be considered businesses but unfortunately they are the best performing business in Pakistan. Government schools can never flourish as long as private schools keep on functioning like this. An autonomous regulatory body should be formed at federal level to regulate private schools just the way State Bank of Pakistan regulates banks.
Finally a very good step by the Government.
Appreciated.
This is definitely a great decision.
What can one expect from this goon orientated government… What does the school run on???FEES!!! which are used to pay staff salaries and overhead expenses… and also… the owner’s profit…
Trying to show…they are very much concerned about the well being of the children n their parents …
Where as their overall policies have compelled many to commit suicide…sell their minor valuables to feed the devilish bellies of these looters and plunderers…
Glad to hear that, hope there’ll be a time when every school and education departments will run their own conveyances and let us have some peace
It’s a good decision but if parents are ghosting the administration without any prior or proper reasoning then there’s no justifications.
The part of decision where students can’t be asked for the fee sounds logical and ethical.
However the schools dont or never involve the students in the fee matters until and unless their parents continue to disappear or ignore the repeated reminders initiated by the school.
The government is there to protect and respect both and every faction of the society therefore there should also be some instructions/guidelines governing the parents as well who are in a constant habit of paying their children’s school fee on time or refuse to pay at all.
Something good.
A very good step.
Parents should also be banned from not paying school fees for months at a time, and then getting admission in another school.
Parents should also be advised to select a school according to their budget.
Will hospitals also be banned from asking for payments from patients if the family refuses to respond or disappears after receiving full treatment?
All provincial, Federal as well as GB and AJK governments should cut their waste expenditures to divert required funds for making education free for all. Only VVIPs in Pakistan consume free electricity of billions of rupees. Similarly expenses on official dinners are just waste, save for free education.
Excellent decision… This should be implemented in all regions. So the school management couldn’t mentally torture the students.