s, while others have applied to the Ministry of Education, Sporty and Culture to allow them to raise their fees.
Milton and Gifford High School are demanding a further $400 000 from about $200 000 the initial fee, Plumtree High School is demanding over $600 000, Mzingwane High is demanding about $200 000 while a host of others have from last week been holding meetings with parents and guardians to agree on supplementary fees.
The supplementary fees, coming at short notice, have left most parents and guardians in a quandary as they have been given just only up to the end of the month to settle the fees to avoid their children being chased away from school.
Headmasters defended the supplementary fees saying that ‘they are the only way to avoid starvation.’
Said one headmaster: “Despite saying the fees are high, parents are in agreement that food commodities have gone up drastically and the only way we can make sure that students have three meals is to increase the fees.”
Repeated efforts to obtain a comment from Aeneas Chigwedere, the Minister of Education, Sport and Culture and his permanent secretary, Stephen Mahere were fruitless. – CAJ News
21.6.2007
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Schools desperate to avoid starvation (21-06-07)
BULAWAYO
Boarding schools are demanding supplementary fee increases of over 200% for the remaining four weeks of the first term, following a wave of price increases.
Most of the schools are demanding top-ups of between Z$800 000 and Z$1 600 000 from overburdened parents and guardian
Boarding schools are demanding supplementary fee increases of over 200% for the remaining four weeks of the first term, following a wave of price increases.
Most of the schools are demanding top-ups of between Z$800 000 and Z$1 600 000 from overburdened parents and guardian