High School Directors require contractors to register students to their account to secure their contract assignment!

Faten Hajj wrote in Al-Akhbar: With the beginning of each academic year, the General Directorate of Vocational and Technical Education seeks to cover the enrollment fees for students who cannot pay, through “donations” collected from contractors in vocational education. and technique. Although it is assumed that education is a “right and a duty”, the State must ensure it for all students, in this case it becomes a “beggar and charismatic”, according to the sources of some contractors. They claim that those who abstain from “donating” pay the price of the hours of their contract, either by reducing or canceling them, although the “donation” is not mandatory. And since there is not a great demand for professional training, they claim that the institute directors ask them to recruit students and pay their tuition fees to secure hours for contractors whose number reaches 14,000.

And since 20,000 million lire from the budget reserve was transferred in 2019 to the Ministry of Social Affairs to support the “National Program to Support the Poorest Families” (the so-called “Hala Card”), “not a penny of their debts the program has reached the official professional institutes “. According to Hanadi Berri, general director of Professional Education. While UNICEF cut its aid this year, it now covers the education of 2,968 students instead of 9,000.

Therefore, the educational office of the Amal Movement, under the patronage of Berri, launched a donation campaign entitled “Together to register a student”, which includes schools and vocational education institutes with their administrative staff, teachers and students to raise a sum of money to register students who cannot pay the cost of tuition, and donations are in the custody of the director of the institute. In the event that there is a surplus in donations in a specific institute, it is transferred to another institute in accordance with the directives of the director general.

Although it seemed surprising that the campaign was led by a partisan party instead of paying donations directly to the beneficiary students, Berri pointed out that these funds are “in solidarity with needy students and do not have a legal formula and are not collected through a circular official”. Students, only the Amal movement has responded so far. Berri explained that there are many classes that have not yet been completed, and the management does not make an exception to any institute by opening classes whose number of students falls below the legal quorum.

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