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Altbara East Primary School denies charging parents fees

Atlabara East Primary School in Juba says the collection of fees as alleged by the Ministry of General Education and Instruction was the initiative of parents, not the learning institution – to pay volunteer teachers.

On Tuesday, the Ministry of General Education and Instruction said it came to its attention that three unauthorized public primary schools collected between 30,000SSP to 35,000SSP from parents as contribution fees.

The schools implicated include Atlabara East Primary School, Malakia Primary School, and Juba One Girls Primary School.

Minister Awut Deng Achuil thus demanded that the schools return the payments made or else the schools or individuals face disciplinary measures.

In response, Atlabara Deputy Head Teacher John Wani Augustino says the collection of fees was the initiative of the learners’ parents who formed an association to pay volunteer teachers.

According to him, the parents have their system to pay the volunteer teachers.

“We did not ask for school fees from children, it is parents that came up with this contribution to their children,” he said.

The parents also use the fees collected to provide scholarship materials to support the volunteer teachers.

“The parents have their person who has a form and a stamp,

“That money is being used to pay volunteer teachers, services in the school, buying chalks and preparatory books for the teachers including school maintenance,” he added.

Wani says the school has not broken the law protecting free education in the country.

Ulang S.4 Students miss nation-wide exams

Authorities in Ulang County of Upper Nile State say fifty-three students have missed sitting for this year’s senior four national exams due to an abrupt change in the exams center.

They are comprised of forty-three male and ten-female candidates.

Ulang County Education Director says the national examination council designed one exams center for the area, but this was later shifted to Nasir County.

Samuel Koang told Eye Radio that the county received the information about the changes late.

“We did all the preparations including the index number for Ulang Center, then at the last moment, the center was moved to Nasir and the students are not ready to go to Nasir because the information was passed late, ” he said.

Besides, Koang said, the student could not afford transport to Nasir, and there is insecurity on the road.

 ‘The security on the roads is not good and traveling to Nasir is expensive,’ he added.

Gadek Gatwej, one of the students who have missed the ongoing nationwide exams expressed his frustrations over the matter.

“For the whole year, we have been preparing to sit for our exams in Ulang but when the time came, they said we are not sitting for exams in Ulang,

‘We complained but there is no response or solution, that’s why we are asking, are we not south Sudanese, why are we not given the exams in Ulang?

Several phone calls to the Secretary of National Examination Council for comment went answered.

 

 

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