School fee row 'bars pupils from exams'
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[March 18, 2006]

School fee row 'bars pupils from exams'

(Gulf News Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)Dubai: Parents have charged the management of an Indian curriculum school in Sharjah of financial impropriety and debarring pupils for not paying fees.

They said the school did not issue receipts for the public examination fees for Grade 10 they had paid.

According to the parents each pupil must pay Dh300 to appear for the Kerala Board Grade 10 examinations that began last week in 14 schools across the UAE.

The school facing the charges, New India Model School in Sharjah, has branches in Dubai, Al Ain and Abu Dhabi.

"The school at first refused to give the hall ticket unless she [daughter] paid the exam fees. The school does not have the right to do so," said Rafik Abu Bakr, a parent. A hall ticket is a document issued by the board in India that allows a pupil to enter exam hall.



"When my child was told that she would not be able to appear for the examination unless she pays her fee she started crying," said Abu Bakr.

The school admitted that that they do not issue receipts against exam fees. According to them the travel expenses of invigilators and superintendents from Kerala are covered by the fees collected.



"We never give receipt to pupils .... So far it is not the rule. Until now none of the parents have asked for the receipt," said Shaikh Jabber Ali, principal of the school.

Asked about debarring a pupil from examination, he said: "The school cannot do such a thing."

The school's branch in Dubai said pupils are given receipts once they pay exam fees. "We issue receipts ... for the payment they have paid," said K.R.S. Nair, Vice-Principal of New India Model School, Dubai.

"The school cannot hold any child from appearing in the exams. If the dues are not paid we hold the transfer certificate."

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