Africa-Press – Eswatini. With parents are still worried about getting money for their children for schools, those whose children will sit for external examinations have more to worry about.
Their added worry is that fees for the Junior Certificate (JC) examination have increased by 27 per cent, while Eswatini Primary certificate fees remain unchanged.
According to information from the Examination Council of Eswatini for one subject, pupils would now have to pay E 236 in JC, which consists of E100 candidate fee and E136 subject fee.
This shows an increase of 27 per cent from last year’s E185.
For each subject, pupils will pay an extra E136, which means they will write eight subjects, they would each have to pay E1 188.
The deadline for payment is April 8.
According to the ECESWA fee schedule, the first stage of late payment would be charged an extra E250, which would be between April 8 and May 3 and for the last stage, it would be E300.
Fees
This will be for fees paid between May 6 and May 31. The examinations will be held in October or November.
For EPC, the money is E60 candidate fee and E100 subject fee, which means for one subject, a pupil will pay E160. For nine subjects, they will have to pay E960.
The deadline for payment is May 10 and there will be a late entry fee of E200 for those who pay between May 13 and 31.
When the Minister of Education and Training, Owen Nxumalo, released the JC results last month, he said a total of 19 079 candidates registered for the JC examination in 2023 whereas in 2022 there were 20 206 entries.
The minister explained that this indicated a 5.58 per cent decline in candidature in 2023 when compared with 2022.
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