The Ministry of Primary, Secondary and Vocational Education (EPSP) has just established the school authorities as to the measures that must accompany the free basic education as stipulated by the Constitution of the Republic in its article 43.

In a correspondence addressed to the provincial directors of the education sub-sector and dated August 27, 2019, the secretary general of EPSP, Jean-Marie Mangobe Bomungo listed five main measures that must accompany the effectiveness of free education. primary.

These are respectively:

1. The abolition in all their forms of all tuition fees in public budgeted educational establishments of basic education;

2. The abolition of incentive fees paid by parents of pupils to teachers in all public budgeted educational institutions;

3. Prohibition to transform schools into houses for the supply and sale of school supplies and articles (uniforms, crests, class newspapers, notebooks, ties, and other supplies, etc.);

4. The obligation to allow parents the freedom to purchase items, and school supplies including school uniforms on the markets and at the market price;

5. Prohibition of recognizable signs to be affixed to uniforms as a form of execution or badges identifying schools.

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— Eric Tshikuma (@erictshikuma) August 29, 2019

It is in execution of the Ministerial EPSP circular on the abolition of tuition fees in public basic education establishments that the Secretary General has communicated this series of accompanying measures to stakeholders for better implementation of this government decision from the start of the school year 2019-2020.

Olivier KAMO