Private schools in Swabi raise fee

[Toramana]

SWABI, March 3: The managements of private educational institutions in the district have increased admission fee and other dues with the start of new academic year.

The owners and principals of various schools held several meetings to finalise increase in admission fee and other dues. They said that parents should visit schools to register their children as admissions for the session 2011-2012 were opened.

According to the decision, nursery admission fee has been increased from Rs4,000 to Rs5,000 and monthly fee from Rs1,000 to Rs1,500 by majority of the schools. The monthly fee for other classes has also been increased with the same proportion. Some of the schools would charge about Rs6,000 as admission fee and Rs3,000 as monthly fee, sources said.

The principal of an educational institution, when contacted, said that they would conduct test for admitting students to each class and only qualified students would get admission. “No student will be admitted to our institution without test,” he added. He admitted that they had increased fee and other dues but he was reluctant to unveil the ratio.
On the other hand, parents have showed concern over increase in fee of educational institutions. “We don`t know how we will manage to pay educational fee of our children as we are already hit hard by price hike and inflation,” they added.

They alleged that managements of those institutions were exploiting them as they knew that they could not compromise on the education of their children.

The parents said that private institutions were given a free hand to charge students according to their free will as there was no mechanism to check them. “There is dire need to set criteria of fee charging,” said Nooral Amin, a resident of Maneri Bala.

Meanwhile, the annual examinations have been started at public sector schools. The heads of schools said that it was expected that the examinations would be concluded till March 15 as a number of teachers were expected to leave for performing duty in the secondary school certificate examination, to be conducted by Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education Mardan on March 16.

http://www.dawn.com/2011/03/04/priva...raise-fee.html

[graveyardofempires]

If you want real progress than "SCHOOLS SHOULD BE FREE" along with "FREE SCHOOL BOOKS ETC"

[gadoonwal]

swabi,swat, etc all singing ,,pak sar zamin shad bad,,,
A slave will always remain slave.I have been to these schools for visit and honestly i hate their pakipied/punjabipied system of education.
In Qued azam public school they even speak urdu with young children when i asked why is that?
That pakipied head of the school said,,,this is our national language and also to change their accent .
To hell with their schools and so called pakipied management.
In swat the the sytems is even worst where they have no interest in pashtu at all.
tHAT SHOW HOW MUCH THE YOUSUFZAIS OF SWAT,SWABI LOVE PAKISTAN.

[IamDZJ]

Beats me. I dont believe in private schooling. The only people who can afford it are students with parents who work for the corrupted government.
And then they all grow up to be snobs.

[graveyardofempires]

free schools are only possible with a good and corruption free taxing system. Most of us don't want to pay tax and do everything possible back hom to avoid tax but want free education. its just not feasible. either we don't pay tax and go to private schools or pay tax and go to free public schools.

If you convince them they will pay taxes.
i mean if your children are getting free education ,wouldnt you pay tax?

[Toramana]

Actually, public schooling has failed big time no longer able to deliver in terms of quality education. Private schools may be not that good either (apart from creating class-based allocation of educational opportunity) but people have trust in them even if based on extortion.

It is almost shocking looking at the mushrooming of private schools in a small area like Swabi (some 240 private schools). How many of them are genuine, one can imagine.

A complete list of Private Schools in Swabi

[Shehbaz Khan]

It's not only in Swabi almost everywhere in Pakistan the private schools raise fee yearly !! Even if you look at the chain of PAF, Army and Bahria Schools/Colleges they raise their fee every year ..

[graveyardofempires]

Actually, public schooling has failed big time no longer able to deliver in terms of quality education. Private schools may be not that good either (apart from creating class-based allocation of educational opportunity) but people have trust in them even if based on extortion.

It is almost shocking looking at the mushrooming of private schools in a small area like Swabi (some 240 private schools). How many of them are genuine, one can imagine.

A complete list of Private Schools in Swabi

i understand that public schools have failed but that doesnt mean that being them public schools they failed,it is more likely because fo corruption and tight resources.
as for private scvhools:when schools become business they dont care so much if you fail or pass ,they will probably wan you to fail so that you have to pay for the next year.

240 private schools in swabi?
ya ne key ya de khre key.

[Toramana]

i understand that public schools have failed but that doesnt mean that being them public schools they failed,it is more likely because fo corruption and tight resources.
as for private scvhools:when schools become business they dont care so much if you fail or pass ,they will probably wan you to fail so that you have to pay for the next year.

240 private schools in swabi?
ya ne key ya de khre key.

A number of factors influence parents selection of a private school for their children e.g. the performance of a school in terms of percentage of students passed, number of students having secured good grades( A1 or A e.g.), qualification of teachers, labs, building, etc.

The managers of private schools are smart/cunning. In order to attract/retain brilliant students (who are likely to secure good grades and so boost schools results), they offer them scholarships, awards, free books, free education, etc. These schools try to show good results (A-1 or A-grades, pass percentage) instead of failing students. Then they advertise their reults/performance on sign boards, TV, in news papers, etc. They hold functions etc. even run fancy buses to drop/pick students (impress masses).

But whatever, these private schools are playing a big role in enhancing literacy and in many cases providing better education. The government doesn't have the capacity to provide schooling to such a large number of students.

Many of the govt schools are primary level whereas most of the private schools tend to be upto grade 10 (many are college level). For example in Peshawar district, there are some 1400 public sector (i.e. govt) schools. Of these 900 are primary and the rest middle/high/secondary(upto grade 8 or 10-12).

Against it, the number of private schools in Peshawar district is 1100 of which 400 hundred svhools are primary and the rest middle/high (i.e. upto grade 8 or upto grade 10-12). So private schools are contributing in the provision of secondary level education.

[graveyardofempires]

A number of factors influence parents selection of a private school for their children e.g. the performance of a school in terms of percentage of students passed, number of students having secured good grades( A1 or A e.g.), qualification of teachers, labs, building, etc.

The managers of private schools are smart/cunning. In order to attract/retain brilliant students (who are likely to secure good grades and so boost schools results), they offer them scholarships, awards, free books, free education, etc. These schools try to show good results (A-1 or A-grades, pass percentage) instead of failing students. Then they advertise their reults/performance on sign boards, TV, in news papers, etc. They hold functions etc. even run fancy buses to drop/pick students (impress masses).

But whatever, these private schools are playing a big role in enhancing literacy and in many cases providing better education. The government doesn't have the capacity to provide schooling to such a large number of students.

Many of the govt schools are primary level whereas most of the private schools tend to be upto grade 10 (many are college level). For example in Peshawar district, there are some 1400 public sector (i.e. govt) schools. Of these 900 are primary and the rest middle/high/secondary(upto grade 8 or 10-12).

Against it, the number of private schools in Peshawar district is 1100 of which 400 hundred svhools are primary and the rest middle/high (i.e. upto grade 8 or upto grade 10-12). So private schools are contributing in the provision of secondary level education.

haven even watched one of their fancy commercials on tv back in peshawer.

i heard one story about the school for Afghan muhajirs in badabera where the teachers are actually not good and they cant even teach math.
when asked they will tell you they dont care.they get their salary rom UN anyway.
All they teach them is urdu etc but there are also Aghan teachers who put their efforts to teacht hem also.

Anywayy hope the public sector revives in pukhtukhwa and also teach in Pukhto so that way we can have maximum results.As we know learning in a language which is not your mother tongue will make you to be second to the one's who has it as mother tongue.

Private sector is always a good addition,but now ocourse they are the ones giving services and running the show.