Early admissions in matric schools shunned

Updated on: Monday, November 30, 2009

Chennai: To check the monetary exploitation of students and parents, the Directorate of Matriculation Schools has prohibited private schools from completing admissions for 2010-11 until results of the annual/board examinations are declared.

With the state government enacting a law to regulate fees, schools hit upon an ingenious idea to circumvent it. Some schools started admitting students, especially to class XI, in a bid to collect fees under various heads before the new structure is fixed. Director of matriculation schools P Mani has decided to crack the whip on this practice

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