English medium schools opposed a government move to put all such schools under a category and fix the tuition and admission fees.
According to the authorities of certain schools, the government should have no restrictions on English medium school tuition fees like it does over other service sectors.
A meeting between education ministry officials and authorities from various English medium schools ended without any decisions being made, on Thursday.
Education ministry Additional Secretary AS Mahmud told the Dhaka Tribune that they could not make any decisions in the meeting.
Sources who were in the meeting said the ministry had told the English medium school authorities that the government wanted to put all English medium schools under a category and have the tuition and admission fees fixed according to that category.
Dhaka Tribune approached the school authorities for comment but no one wanted to open up regarding the matter.
Seeking anonymity, the principal of an English medium school in the capital told the Dhaka Tribune that imposing restrictions on tuition and admission fees would destroy the sector.
“The government can monitor quality but imposing restrictions on fees will not bring any good,” he said.
“Every year we have to increase teachers’ salaries to ensure quality. Without a reasonable tuition fees, we would not be able to hand out a decent salary to the teachers,” he said.
“The government does not have any restrictions on what hospitals charge for their services, why should restrictions be imposed on English medium schools?” he raised the question.
Principal of Scholastica Brig Gen (Rtd) Kaiser Ahmed, principal of Mastermind School Syed Fakhruddin Ahmed and Sunnydale School principal Tazeen Ahmed were present in the meeting.