The Peshawar High Court has directed the Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) to respond to three petitions seeking tuition fee concession for private school students during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. APP/File
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court has directed the Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) to respond to three petitions seeking tuition fee concession for private school students during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
A bench consisting of Chief Justice Qaiser Rashid Khan and Justice Syed M Attique Shah fixed April 8 for hearing final arguments on the petitions filed by Iftikhar Hussain and several other parents of private school students seeking directions for the Private Schools Regulatory Authority (PSRA) to ask all private educational institutions to charge only their ‘operational costs’ instead of full tuition fee during the pandemic.
The private schools have increased monthly tuition fee despite the closures of educational institutions for eight months in one year since the outbreak of pandemic in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. AFP/File
PESHAWAR: The private schools have increased monthly tuition fee despite the closures of educational institutions for eight months in one year since the outbreak of pandemic in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
By increasing the monthly tuition fee, the educational institutions have also violated instructions of Private Schools Regulatory Authority (PSRA) issued to them in July, 2020, according to sources.
“There shall be no increase in the fee this year (2020),” reads the notification issued by PSRA. The notification was approved in the 12th meeting of the authority.
Despite govt directives, private schools reopen in parts of Peshawar
Peshawar
January 13, 2021
PESHAWAR: Despite strict directives of the government about reopening of the schools for on-campus learning from January 18 and 25, majority of the private schools in the suburban parts of the provincial capital and elsewhere in the province have been reopened for academic activities after a short winter recess.
The Elementary and Secondary School Department, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa had issued a detailed notification regarding resumption of online and on-campus academic activities as well as reopening of educational institutions for staff.
The directives were being followed well in the public sector institutions. However, the private schools mostly in rural areas have been openly violating the directives.