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The government decided to impose VAT on private education at different rates ranging from 0% for kindergartens to 13% for private primary and secondary schools.

The decision was made during a joint session of the Government Council for Economic Policy and the Government Council for Social Policy with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras attending and chairing.

The Israeli school year has begun, but thousands of children from the Arab minority who attend Christian schools are still on summer vacation because of a strike to protest cuts in government funding that critics say amount to discrimination.
     

The planned 23% VAT hike to private educational institutions will reportedly be extended to include private schools sending rates exploding. A reportage in daily newspaper, Ethnos, states that parents who send their children to private schools will need to dig their hands deep into their pockets paying an additional 1,500 to 2,000 euros in tuition fees per annum.

A bill introducing drastic reforms to all levels of education is to go to public consultation next week despite objections to its content by private schools and the parents of children attending cramming and language classes at those schools.

Turkey’s Minister of National Education Nabi Avcı plays down the worry of chaos amid reports that thousands of students were placed in schools against their will following the TEOG exam results Turkey’s education minister has sought to downplay the catastrophic ongoing situation in Turkey’s secondary education system, after a large number of students were controversially placed in