Check on tuition centres demanded

Islamabad: The provincial government should constitute monitoring teams to keep vigil over the state of affairs in public sector schools as 60 per cent of their students prefer to go to tuition centres to get prepared for the examinations.
According to a report issued by a non-governmental organisation, private tuition academies charge thousands of rupees per month and students have no other option but to pay them money with an aim to improve their learning skills.
The report pointed out that the government had made rules to direct the working of tuition centres, but these were working on their own and were refuting these norms and regulations.
It is pertinent to mention here that many private tuition centres are working without following existing rules and procedures and charge unreasonable fee.
It stated that if the government ensured quality education in all public sector schools, there would be no need for after school tuition, as in the past students did exceptionally well without going to any tuition centre. The parents also blame some teachers of the government schools for mushrooming of the private tuition centres as according to them these teachers force students to join their centres to get good marks in the examinations. They said the government should develop a mechanism to discourage trend of the tuition centres otherwise the government run schools would lose their worth in the eyes of the students.