Registration and teacher fees limit access to education in the region and many children do not complete primary school.
He and other students in a ramshackle school have trouble paying the teachers' fees.
Although they could be classified into non-profit-making and profit-making, their curricula, teacher qualifications, fee charging criteria, school administration, and performance still should go through the same inspection.
Students also said that when they did manage to go to a class, there was often no instructor present because they themselves had not been paid their teacher's fee and refused to teach.
Parents everywhere are assessed school fees — some real, some bribes (like "teacher motivation" fees).
It also supports incentives for teachers to work in challenging schools or poorer communities by providing a rebate on teacher tuition fees.
His guru, in lieu of the usual teacher's fees, extracted a promise from Dayananda (the name taken by him at the time of his initiation as an ascetic) to spend his life working toward a reinstatement of the Vedic Hinduism that had existed in pre-Buddhist India.
So teachers charged fees, and, to assure themselves of a livelihood, they had to please their students.
Had Isaac and I not been there at the same time, we might have been moved by the young man's call for better teachers, lower fees, and more freedom for the students, but all either of us could see from the moment our eyes locked was the other's vaguely familiar, possibly hostile face staring back.
Mr Jefferies, a former English teacher at the fee-paying Clifton College, is so far the only suspect to be arrested during the murder investigation into Ms Yeates's death.
