{"id":346855,"date":"2025-08-20T09:14:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T13:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=346855"},"modified":"2025-08-20T09:14:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T13:14:12","slug":"ministry-of-education-valid-license-required-for-school-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/homepage-carousel\/ministry-of-education-valid-license-required-for-school-operation\/","title":{"rendered":"Ministry of Education: Valid license required for school operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_341004\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-341004\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-341004 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Octavia-Alfred-e1750167372461-642x334.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Octavia-Alfred-e1750167372461-642x334.jpg 642w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Octavia-Alfred-e1750167372461-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Octavia-Alfred-e1750167372461-768x399.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Octavia-Alfred-e1750167372461-640x332.jpg 640w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Octavia-Alfred-e1750167372461.jpg 1078w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-341004\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hon. Octavia Alfred,Minister for Education, Human Resource Planning, Vocational Training and Nation Excellence<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Ministry of Education, Human Resource Planning, Vocational Training &amp; National Excellence has publicly outlined concerns about attempts from members of the public to open private schools without first obtaining a valid licence to operate from that ministry.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe wish to inform the public that Sections 95 and 96 of the Education ACT, 11 of 1997 clearly outline the requirement for operation of a private school,\u201d stated an announcement from the ministry.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The announcement further stated that institutions operating without a valid license violate the established legal statutes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cNote that it remains the responsibility of parents to request from the institution a copy of the license to operate prior to registering students at these institutions,\u201d the announcement added. \u201c\u00a0The public is asked to be guided accordingly.\u201d<\/p>\n<iframe src=\"\/\/docs.google.com\/viewer?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdominicanewsonline.com%2Fnews%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2025%2F08%2FPSA_Private-schools.pdf&hl=en_US&embedded=true\" class=\"gde-frame\" style=\"width:100%; height:500px; border: none;\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<p class=\"gde-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/PSA_Private-schools.pdf\" class=\"gde-link\">Download (PDF, 194KB)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ministry of Education, Human Resource Planning, Vocational Training &amp; National Excellence has publicly outlined concerns about attempts from members of the public to open private schools without first obtaining a valid licence to operate from that ministry. \u201cWe wish&#8230;","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":341004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[16,235,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-346855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-educationyouth","category-homepage-carousel","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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