The Minister of Education, Mr Filipe Bole is wary of schools that charge levies to school children.
Many of these levies cover things like sports, school magazines, textbooks and other items.
While the Ministry does not wish to interfere with these levies since they are designed by school authorities, the Minister is concerned at the excessiveness of the charges.
The Ministry is also aware that some schools still keep the full amount of tuition grants from the government after sending students home for failing to pay other levies. This is an anomaly the Ministry cannot ignore because it borders on transparency and good governance.
The Ministry may be forced to look into such incidents and perhaps reduce its grants to school found exercising this practice.
The Ministry however believes that the tuition grants it gives to schools should be enough to cover school fees and other items which the schools levied to the children.