Education
Federal Court Summons Sandford International School Officials Over Tuition Dispute
Addis Fortune · 2 hours ago · Read the Full Story on Addis Fortune
AI SUMMARY
Federal High Court judges have ordered Sandford International School officials to appear in court and answer for discontinuing students amid an ongoing foreign exchange tuition dispute.
- Federal High Court judges ordered Biruk Haile (PhD), chairperson of the Board of Sandford International School, and head Richard Cogley to appear in person.
- The officials must answer for the School's decision to discontinue students whose parents are locked in a tuition dispute.
- Parents petitioned the Court's Arada Branch, stating the School defied an earlier injunction suspending the discontinuation of enrolment for over 230 students.
- 133 parents are suing the Administration across three separate cases filed before the Federal High Court's Arada Bench and the Arada First Instance Court.
- The core dispute centers on foreign exchange rates, with parents paying at 75 Br to the dollar while the School invoiced them at 132 Br.
- Ethiopian parents argue tuition should be set in Birr per education authorities and National Bank of Ethiopia directives, and that fee increases require consent from over 50pc of parents.
- The Administration's renewed demand for arrears followed a July ruling where the Federal High Court struck down a Ministry of Education amendment that distinguished a tuition increase from fee harmonisation.
- Founded in 1947, Sandford was restructured in 2013 as an endowment school run by a nine-member board that includes representatives from the Ministry of Education, ACSO, and parents.
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