Dhaka: The government has issued a policy for admission to the secondary, junior secondary and combined primary sections at private schools, and school and colleges across the country with a 40 percent quota keeping aside for local students in Dhaka city.

The Education Ministry issued a set of guidelines on Monday, aiming to make the admission activities more transparent and time-befitting.

The policy says the authorities of the respective educational institution will have to reserve 40 percent seats for the students of its catchment area in Dhaka city while the rest seats will remain open for all.

It says students for admission to Class-1 will have to be selected through lottery all over eh country. At the same time, there must be a waiting list with students beyond merit list.  

The selected students will lose their seats if they fail to get admitted within the stipulated time. In such cases, students from the waiting list will get the opportunity for admission.

The authorities can take Tk 200 for application form for admission in the MPO and partially MPO-listed educational institutions across the country.

The admission fees along with session charges will not be more than Tk 500 in rural area, Tk 1000 in upazila headquarters, Tk 2000 in district town and Tk 3000 in all metropolitan areas, except the capital, according to the policy.

It will not be more than Tk 5000 in Dhaka city area while the authorities of partially MPO and non-MPO institutions in Bangla media can take maximum Tk 8,000 in admission, session and development fees for giving salaries and allowance to their teachers while English media schools can charge highest Tk 10,000.

However, no institution can collect more than Tk 3000 as development fees.

The government will take legal actions against the intuitions which will collect additional money as admission and application form fees than the government-fixed one.

The private educational institutions will have to maintain 5 percent quota for freedom fighters’ children and grandchildren if they have minimum quality for admission.

The government will cancel the MPO facilities of the non-government schools concerned, including academic permission, if they fail to comply with the policy.