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Faten Hajj wrote in “Al-Akhbar”:
With the beginning of each academic year, the General Directorate of Technical and Vocational Education seeks to cover the tuition of students who cannot pay, through “donations” collected from contractors in technical and vocational education. 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 because there is not a great demand for vocational education, they claim that institute directors ask them to recruit students and pay their registration fees to secure hours for contractors whose number has touched 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.
Is it true that the campaign forces teachers to donate, and what does it mean that every teacher enrolls a student? Bree assured that nobody is obliged to pay anything if they do not want to. Whoever wishes can contribute what they want without conditions. Donors, whoever they are, managers, professors or students, can enroll one or more students by paying registration fees, which are 240,000 pounds for professional awards, 331,000 for professional baccalaureate and 390,000 for technical excellence.
Teacher sources point out that economic conditions no longer allow any donation, “and some contractors borrow to pay the contribution.” They refer to the “temptations” of the donor-contractor “increasing his hours even if he does not teach them all, as happened last year during distance education.” While Berri emphasized that “not everything that is said is true. Whoever is obliged to pay must file a complaint with the General Directorate.”
Union sources confirmed to “Al-Akhbar” that formal vocational education is “totally neglected by the state and the level of most of its students is poor. Some enroll not for the purpose of education, but to obtain a grant from the state. Cooperative of State Employees “. He explained: “What is really happening on the subject of tuition is that students are being encouraged to join the institute by exempting them from tuition fees and preserving the contractors’ schedules … and for the contractor to secure their hours, he will be forced to look for students. “
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