{"id":24880,"date":"2016-04-25T08:22:37","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T08:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/cyumba-students-raise-alarm-over-undefined\/"},"modified":"2016-04-27T01:04:09","modified_gmt":"2016-04-27T01:04:09","slug":"cyumba-students-raise-alarm-over-undefined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/cyumba-students-raise-alarm-over-undefined\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyumba students raise alarm over undefined charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Students of Groupe Scolaire Cyumba in Gicumbi district have expressed their dissatisfaction over a  Rwf 1500 charged as report cards  fees paid every school term .<br \/>\nStudents explain that making them pay such fees is inconsiderate  but have done so for a long time yet their counterparts in other schools pay only Rwf 500  once a year.}<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am now studying in senior five but we have been paying Rwf 1500 per term which they claim to be used for processing our reports\/performance cards.  Other schools pay Rwf 500 for the same  per year. I wonder whether this school has particular policies different from nationally accepted principles,\u201d wondered one student who preferred  anonymity but observed that students  are not chased for delaying school fees payments, but can be sent home on failure to pay report cards fees. <\/p>\n<p>The headmaster of Groupe Scolaire Cyumba, Nyabyenda Narcisse told IGIHE that they charge students the Rwf 1500 per term and use it for various school activities. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe call the fund \u2018bulletin fee\u2019 but part of it is used for other needs such as supplementing discipline masters\u2019 payments and teachers\u2019 motivation,\u201d  he said.<\/p>\n<p>Nyabyenda said that the prefect in charge of discipline is paid Rwf 40,000.<br \/>\nThe executive secretary of Cyumba sector, Abahe Fred says he\u2019s  not aware of such collections  but will  follow up to establish the truth and address it accordingly. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-11920 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/cyumba-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Students of Groupe Scolaire Cyumba in Gicumbi district have expressed their dissatisfaction over a Rwf 1500 charged as report cards fees paid every school term . Students explain that making them pay such fees is inconsiderate but have done so for a long time yet their counterparts in other schools pay only Rwf 500 once [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[75],"byline":[160],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-24880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","tag-homenews","byline-theophile-niyitegeka"],"bylines":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":3}],"contributors":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":3}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24880"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=24880"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=24880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}