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01.26.2016
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"Being in the sheet and within the law, anything is possible," says federation of private schools
The passage from one year to another is surrounded by concerns for parents and students, due to the readjustment of schools and colleges tuition. Institutions may increase values with no preset limit, but must justify the values via a spreadsheet spending.
According to the president of Fenep (National Federation of Private Schools), Amábile Pacios, the increase in the price of tuition does not account for inflation.
Instead, she claims are analyzed two groups of expenses: the cost of operation - such as wage and price adjustments, in addition to the physical structure - and pedagogical improvements.
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For this high in the monthly value is proven, Amábile explains that it is necessary to comply with the law 9870 of 1999, which provides for the "filing a charge sheet".
- Being inside the sheet and within the law, anything is possible. When there is a suspicion, who does such supervision are the Procon bodies.
The defense expert Procon-SP consumer (Foundation for Consumer Protection) Valeria Garcia said that in the midst of this scenario, some institutions in the country holding the adjustment in the value of tuition and end up passing the values through rates illegal.
- We noted that some schools offer a tuition more affordable, attracting parents and begin to include a number of fees that would be their duty as service providers.
The president of Fenep in turn, notes that many schools, when applying the adjustment in the value of tuition, instead of applying the increase necessary to meet their own needs, reduces high to keep students in the institution.
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- If the school needs a 15% increase, but recognizes that this percentage will break with families, make them go away and lose students, she decides to adjust by 11%.
Asked about an average adjustment value for the fees to be paid this year, Amabile says that this calculation would not be consistent if it were made. According to her, this is because "a school inserted into the country has a different cost of an institution that is the major urban center."
- There's no way to average it, because there are completely different educational realities in the country [...] There is no way to compare a school which is in São Paulo, who has dual nationality, who works full-time and offers Mandarin, fencing. and chess with a school that is in the interior of the country that has only class in the classroom and physical education.
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If they are dissatisfied with the adjustment applied by the institution of their children, parents have the right to ask schools to check the spreadsheet spending. To Amábile, this is the most effective way to ensure that money was applied in the right manner, as previously established.
- The school announced [for example] that will make an adjustment because it will apply German lessons. If it does not introduce German lessons, something is Erado. So that parental control is the most effective that will be obtained due to the increase of tuition.
Parents should also be aware of the fact that the amounts of the fees should remain the same until the end of the contracts signed with educational institutions.
These agreements have a term of one year for elementary schools and middle and six months for higher education institutions.
Source: R7
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