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Private schools’ union pressing MoE |
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Friday, 01 July 2011 00:41 |
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KUWAIT CITY, June 29: The union that represents the owners of private schools in Kuwait is pressing for increase in tuition fees.
This move is likely to affect fees paid in the Arab, Indian, Pakistani and Filipino schools nationwide, reports Al-Dar daily.
Head of the union Al-Ghrair disclosed after a meeting with some officials in the Ministry of Education that a joint committee of the Arab and foreign private schools will be formed by the ministry to present demands of the foreign and bilingual schools to re-consider their tuition fees, and external committees will specify the extent of increase.
Al-Ghrair stressed that the increase must cover the Arab, Indian, Pakistani, and Filipino schools to preserve their interests, seeing that the owners of schools are converting their licenses to foreign and bilingual purposes. He pointed out that many Arabic private schools have closed due to low tuition fees, recommending that the embassies of countries associated with the private schools must stop pressuring the union on the fees issue. - Arabtimes
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