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14. To spare parents this heavy burden, the Education Department gazetted rules to the effect that fees were not to be collected in advance for a longer period than one month and that the rates of all fees charged by a school were to be published in the Gazette.
15. Six Grant-in-Aid schools under the management of the Bishop, refused to agree to these rules as they did not wish to publish the amount of fees charged and they also demanded the right to collect term fees in advance.
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The Bishop again asked for Block Grants based on the 1946-47 Grant Assessment as he wished to have freedom to collect what fees the schools decided to charge and to spend the money without having to seek the approval of the Director of Education. The matter was discussed by the Secondary Schools Heads Sub-Committee and the Bishop's proposal was rejected by representatives of the 10 Roman Catholic Schools and the 2 London Missionary Society Schools. The Board of Education upheld this decision and decided to recommend to the Director that fees for extras should not be more than 50% of the school tuition fees.
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Mr. Rowell considered that the extra fees charged by the Bishop's schools were much too high and he quoted figures showing that the other denominational schools had kept their extra fees to half or less of the fee charged for tuition. During the first two years after the war, schools had been allowed to double their fees to provide money for repairing their buildings and restoring equipment, but $250,000 which had been collected from the parents of children attending the Bishop's schools had not appeared in the schools' estimates.
18. Mr. Rowell in reply to a question said that private schools could charge what fees they liked provided that they published in the Gazette their scale of fees.
19. The Sub-Committee accepted Mr. Rowell's replies of the 5th April 1948 to the questions (a), (b), (c) and (a) raised at the meeting held on the 23rd October 1947 as the anomaly pointed out in (a) had disappeared, and the transition mentioned in (b) was now in force.
20. DATE OF MEETINGS. Members of the Sub-Committee expressed a preference for holding meetings in the mornings of the second or third Tuesday in a month if it was necessary to fix a regular monthly date for moetings of the Other Territories Sub-Committee.
Colonial Office,
Victoria Chambers, 15, Victoria Street,
S.W.1.
28th July, 1948.
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