Private schools announce strike in KP

PESHAWAR: The Private Schools on Friday announced strike against the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Private Schools Regulatory Authority (KP-PSRA).

Talking to The News, Hub of Private Education (HOPE) Peshawar President, Wasifullah, said the PSRA’s laws were beyond comprehension.

He said the private schools would welcome reforms, but damaging the education sector in the name of reforms was unacceptable.

The government action would compel private sector to shift resources to other provinces and that would jeopardise the education, he said, and asked the government to categorise the institutions.

The schools charging highest fee should give highest discount while the ones charging lowest fee should not be force to give discount, he added.

“Demanding of a school that provides quality education in a rural area at Rs1,000 a month to give discount to four or five siblings is not feasible,” he said, adding that such laws would force owners to close their schools.

He alleged that the government was damaging private sector education, adding the government had no policy for education and was panicked at the end of its tenure.

Wasifullah maintained that the schools charging the lowest fee would not survive when it stop the fee during vacation.

He said the private schools across the province would remain closed on Monday and Tuesday against these discriminatory policies.

MANSEHRA: The action committee of all bodies of private educational institutions in Hazara division have announced to observe strike on April 23 and 24 against what they said appointing of a representative of nongovernmental organisation as head of private schools regularity authority in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

“We cannot accept the checking of our educational institutions through nongovernmental organisations and would decide our future strategy in a grand convection to be held on April 23,”Raja Naseem Swati, the head of the action committee, told a press conference here at press club on Friday.