e-News® | The NEWS Company…DHAKA, Feb 09, 2016 : Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid today directed the school authorities to refund extra fees collected from SSC examinees as well as the students who got admission into schools.
“Education boards concerned have already been directed to submit a list of the schools within seven working days, which are found guilty for collecting additional money”, he told a meeting with members of civil society at his ministry. Nahid warned the school authorities to return extra fees, additional tuition fees and salaries to the students within seven working days.
“Otherwise, we will take tougher action against those educational institutions, which will disobey our instruction,” he added. Referring to the High Court order to return extra fees collected from SSC examinees, the minister said the education ministry will take necessary measures to comply with the High court order in this regard. In reply to questions of journalists, the education minister said, “We also issued an instruction to the school authorities for stopping to increase admission fees, session fees and tuition fees. They (Schools authorities) must follow our instruction.”
He said, “I urge guardians to make specific complaint to us. We must take instant action against those schools for violating our instruction.” Human rights activist Advocate Sultana Kamal read out a written statement, which was signed by 28 distinguished personalities, expressing a concern over illegally hiked admission and tuition fees at schools. She urged the government to take immediate steps to stop collecting additional money from the students.
