Independent Mon News
Agency (IMNA)
June 16, 2003
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Universities reopen along with all State
schools
High education tax during the school
opening days
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Universities reopen along with all State
schools
Today many students arrived into the campus
of
University teachers are accepting the new
students by putting in their enrollment registration and final year students,
who were the most dissatisfying the university closure during the recent weeks,
also could learn their lessons in classes.
“We have to enter exams for two weeks and
then we would complete our university education. We had been not allowed to
enter into our university campus since June 2 order, and so that we
dissatisfied. We did not know why the schools close. When we were barred even
to enter in the campus, we quite dissatisfied and disappointed. Now we are glad
for the reopening of universities.”
This university opening and enrollment
allowance is just for the students who stay in town or in the areas nearby who
attend the classes in early morning and return in the evening. It is not for
the students who stay at university’s hostels.
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High education tax during the school
opening days
Similarly to many other State basic
education schools, all schools in
The school opening day late and the teachers
also took more money from them than the previous years, said by student
parents.
“Fees for school enrollment, text books, and
fees for sport are not so much. Only over 1000 Kyat.
But the fees for the school repairs and new school buildings are too expensive.
They ask from 7000 to 20000 Kyat. They collected more money for new students,”
said by the parents from
When IMNA asks an teacher, who would not to unidentify, she said that why they took more fees from the
parents, she said,
“We did not receive enough budget from the government for school repairs and new
building, and therefore we ask more from the parents. We, teachers, asked
government supports, but it was too little. So that we have
to ask money from parents. As the building materials have been expensive,
therefore, we collect more money from parents”, explained by a teacher to IMNA.
Besides the school fees, the parents also
have to pay the fees for computer system at schools in both urban and rural
areas. The farmers are also forced to pay for this cost.
Besides the school fees, the parents have to
spend a lot of expenses in putting their children in private tuition arranged
by school teachers to pass the final exam. One student have to spend about 100,
000 Kyat for tuition fee for all subjects for the whole year. If he/she needs
special tuition teacher, he/she has to pay 10000 Kyat per month for one subject
only.
Due to expensive school fees, many children
left from schools even in the young schooling age. Some students engage in
works for income and some also moved to