Kano State Government has urged proprietors of private schools to reduce school fees by 25 and 30 per cent for the 2019\/2020 Third Term academic session.
\nThe state\u2019s Commissioner for Education, Sanusi Kiru, stated this in a statement signed by the Public Relations Officer of the ministry, Aliyu Yusuf, in Kano.
\nKiru said the ministry was considering cancellation of the third term session, if the school proprietors remained adamant to reduce the fees.
\nHe said the measure was imperative in view of the economic realities ocassioned by the COVID-19 pandemic.
\nHe said: \u201cTwo parallel adhoc committees were constituted to discuss with proprietors of the schools on the downward review of the fees as done in some states.
\n\u201cFailure to do so; the ministry will cancel the third term session, and the academic calendar\u00a0 will commence with a new session in January 2021.
\n\u201cProprietors of private schools should appreciate the support they enjoyed from the state government and extend the same gesture to the good people of the state.\u201d
\nThe commissioner said the ministry had fixed November 1, dateline for the schools to comply, warning that: \u201cthe ministry will be left with no option than to take such a revolutionary decision in public interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Kano State Government has urged proprietors of private schools to reduce school fees by 25 and 30 per cent for the 2019\/2020 Third Term academic session. The state\u2019s Commissioner for Education, Sanusi Kiru, stated this in a statement signed by the Public Relations Officer of the ministry, Aliyu Yusuf, in Kano. Kiru said the ministry […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":244919,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=244912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/244919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=244912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=244912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=244912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}