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Registration must for English medium schools by month-end

Mustak Hossain
In a bid to bring the private English medium schools under strict regulations, the government has asked them to register with education ministry by this month.
The ministry took the decision in the face of numerous complaints from guardians about high tuition fees and inadequate facilities in these mushrooming schools.
"We have already asked all these schools to get registered by this month," Education Minister M Osman Farruk told The Daily Star on Sunday.
However, there is no official statistics on the actual number of such schools offering courses from pre-schooling to O (Ordinary) and A (Advance) level.
There is no government rules for these schools as their students sit for 'O' and 'A' level examinations under the University of Cambridge and University of London.
Guardians allege in absence of rules most of the schools charge exorbitant tuition fees but they lack facilities, unified curriculum and
skilled teachers.
Admission fees at pre-school level range between Tk 5,000 and Tk 40,000 and almost all schools with good repute increase their 'yearly fees' every year.
Every guardian has to pay an amount ranging from Tk 8,000 to Tk 15,000 when a student is promoted to a higher class, and even when he or she fails to pass annual exams.
Monthly tuition fees in these schools range between Tk 800 and Tk 5,000 or above, the guardians allege. Most reputed schools keep increasing the tuition fees showing many reasons including 'rising cost of maintenance'.
A section of guardians of Scholastica, Maple Leaf International and Bangladesh International Tutorial (BIT) earlier publicly accused management of those schools for 'irrational hikes in fees and other exorbitant charges'.
Sources said guardians of some other schools are planning to go to court seeking justice as management
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of those school ignored their pleas to address the issues.
"The schools are charging high fees as there is no regulations," said one guardian. "But most of them do not have qualified teachers, library, laboratory or playground."
The guardians said many English medium schools lack purpose-built infrastructure, adequate lighting, ventilation and toilet facilities.
"Basically, these are not educational institutions rather business houses," said a guardian. He said another business is that most of the schools compel the students to buy stationery and school uniforms from their designated shops.
The guardians further allege the schools do not maintain any teacher recruitment policy and they do not have any managing committee. "They don't want to form managing committee in fear of strong action from guardians," said a guardian.
A managing committee, elected by the guardians of students, is mandatory to run educational institutions in private sector, according to government rules.