Private schools (1).

Byline: Yousaf Jamil - Wah Cantt

PRIVATE educational institutions have become a lucrative business for minting money rather than for contributing to education.

This has been a source of concern and worry for parents whose children are enrolled in private schools.

The provincial school education department has published in the newspapers main provisions of the amended law regarding the annual increase in the tuition fee for the attention of parents.

On paper, these provisions are impressive and appreciable, reflecting the good intention of the provincial government to regulate the private educational institutions by bringing them within the given framework and bounding them to adhere to the provisions.

But in practical terms no private school system/group is willing to adhere to it, because the managements of these institutions do not bother about the punitive measures.

In reality, they charge admission or security fee on their own without caring that the amending law binds them not to charge more than a month's tuition fee...