Father Youssef Nasr delivers a speech at the 28th Colloquium of Catholic Schools on Sept. 6. (Photo courtesy of the General Secretariat of Catholic Schools)
Tuition fees in private Catholic schools in Lebanon will not be dollarized this year. They will be charged in Lebanese lira, in accordance with the law regulating the private education sector in Lebanon.But in return, parents will have to pay a lump sum in fresh dollars, in order to allow schools to pay their bills and to pay teachers decent salaries, part of which will be made in fresh dollars. Less privileged families will be able to benefit from scholarships and social aid. The general secretariat of Lebanon’s Catholic schools announced this decision — amid a political crisis and local currency’s collapse — at the start of its two-day annual symposium on Sept. 6 at the Antonine Sisters School in Ghazir. Maronite Patriarch Bechara al-Rai participated in the gathering, alongside the head of the country’s Catholic schools, Father...
Tuition fees in private Catholic schools in Lebanon will not be dollarized this year. They will be charged in Lebanese lira, in accordance with the law regulating the private education sector in Lebanon.But in return, parents will have to pay a lump sum in fresh dollars, in order to allow schools to pay their bills and to pay teachers decent salaries, part of which will be made in fresh dollars. Less privileged families will be able to benefit from scholarships and social aid. The general secretariat of Lebanon’s Catholic schools announced this decision — amid a political crisis and local currency’s collapse — at the start of its two-day annual symposium on Sept. 6 at the Antonine Sisters School in Ghazir. Maronite Patriarch Bechara al-Rai participated in the gathering, alongside the head of the country’s Catholic schools,...
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