Over the years, schools administrators have had to unwillingly play hide and seek with parents of some students that stall playing school fees for their children until exam time, then beg for the school administration to allow their children sit exams on credit.
Schools, mostly private owned have always come up to complain about this behaviour, and are now asking for government intervention.
While at a speech day at St Mary’s Primary School in Makindye, the Secretary General of Uganda National Association of Private Schools and Institutions (UNAPIS) Hajji Hamza Mirembe tasked government to formulate a strong policy that deals with parents who refuse to pay school fees for their children.
Mirembe said that some parents have made it a habit to deliberately absent themselves from paying school fees for their children, taking refuge intp thye fact that government will punish schools if they refuse students from sitting for exams.
“I task government to come up a strong policy that forces parents to pay school fees in time so that their children are disorganised at the time of sitting for their exams. The policy should also deal with those that deliberately fail to pay the fees,” Mirembe said.
Mirembe also encouraged schools to get UNEB centre numbers so that head teachers are barred from running off with students’ exam registration money, and went on to add that parents should refrain from taking their children to such schools.