It has come to be known that, all schools that charge high school fees will be defying a government directive, and they will be closed. This comes after two factors; an outcry by parents that school fees are very much hiked, and a low student turn up for this term that was registered across the country.
In this, while releasing the recent UCE results 2023 by the Minister of Education and Sports in conjunction with UNEB, Hon. Janet Kataaha Museveni pledged to help parents on this high school fees structures menace.
The government has therefore come out to direct that, starting term two of this academic year schools that charge exorbitant school fees will be closed. In this, there are 12 items that have been banned from being included in the school fees structures by any school.
“The Ministry of Education and Sports is already in the process of formulating a statutory instrument and once passed, no school will do otherwise and they will all have to follow our regulations and be governed and whoever doesn’t allow will have to close the school, especially private ones” State Minister for Primary Education Dr. Joyce Kaducu said.
Additionally, the government will start implementing a regulation on 12 items passed by cabinet that schools should not include in their fees structure of pre-primary, primary, and secondary schools.
And these include and are not limited to; charges for any infrastructure developments, activities of the board plus activities of Parents’, Teachers’ Association (PTA), among others that were mentioned.
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It should also be noted that, Minister of Education recently said that the government must keep its work on implementing free education through Universal Primary Education and Universal Secondary Education. And warned those private schools that charge parents so highly.
“I would like you to desist from unjustified increases in fees, be mindful of the struggling parents and the fact that these fees have kept many learners out of schools. You must accept to be governed” she partly said in her speech.
