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ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Australia ready for tough Qatar Sport | 28 Tuesday 14 October 2014 • 20 Dhu’l-Hijja 1435 • Volume 19 Number 6218 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Stop uniform sales, Emir meet Saudi King private schools told No tie-up allowed with shops or distributors DOHA: The Supreme The Ministry had earlier school uniforms in their premises Education Council (SEC) has asked the SEC to take the nec- as per guidelines issued by the banned all private schools and essary steps to implement the SEC earlier, but allegedly have kindergartens from getting decision. Both the schools and direct or indirect involvement in involved in the sale and distri- the shops have been asked to this business. bution of school uniforms. stop such practices, saying it Uniforms of some schools are The ban goes beyond prevent- is a clear violation of the Law available at exclusive shops set up ing schools from selling uniforms No (19) of 2006 on protection of outside their premises. Although in their premises. They cannot competition and prevention of in theory students are free to buy have tie ups with specific shops monopoly. The decision will be them from anywhere they choose, or suppliers dealing in uniforms in force from the current (2014- they may not be available in other with an intention to make finan- 2015) academic year, according places. Parents would end up with The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani with the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah cial gains or promote their busi- to the circular. more expenses if they look for bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia at the Royal Palace in Jeddah yesterday. They discussed a number of ness interests. The SEC circular categori- other options. issues of common concern, especially the latest developments in the region. SEC has issued a circular to cally stated that schools and Some schools allegedly have all the private schools and kin- kindergartens should not have gone for specific brands and dergartens asking them to give any financial interests related to made tie ups with leading full freedom to students and uniforms. They can neither sell manufactures to provide the parents in the purchase of uni- the uniform in their campus nor clothes. Although the schools Housing loan not enough: Qataris forms. Parents should be free to ask the students/parents to buy are required to provide the logo buy uniforms from any source it from any particular place or separate, they come printed on they prefer. The school’s role is shop. the uniforms in some cases. The DOHA: As construction costs repayment tenures. and wife are employed, they keep limited to prescribing the col- The school should also choose SEC directive is expected to stop continue to escalate due to ris- Beneficiaries have long been struggling for years to repay the our and design and providing uniforms with common colours such practices. ing demand for materials amid complaining that the loan amount piled up loans, thus, wasting their the school logo to be fixed on the that are easily available in the Following complaints about the a building boom, Qataris are is insufficient to build a house due prime youth. garments. market. They cannot prescribe involvement of some Independent complaining again that the to rising construction cost. Construction costs have been The circular is in line with a complicated shades or special schools in the sale of uniforms, housing loan provided to them Al Sharq reported yesterday that soaring and have reached QR150 directive issued by the Ministry of quality material for the uniform SEC had issued similar guide- by the state is insufficient. young and employed Qataris who per square foot for areas out- Economy and Commerce last year forcing parents to buy it from lines to all Independent schools. The government provides free marry prefer to have their own side of Doha and QR250 within to end all types of monopolistic exclusive dealers. The school logo Private schools and kindergar- land to nationals and housing house. And since the government Doha. practices in this sector. should be made available sepa- tens have now been asked to fall loans worth QR1.2m are given to housing loan amount is insufficient And nationals who don’t have The move apparently is rately to be fixed on the uniform. in line. those nationals who are in jobs. they are forced to take bank loans land but get housing loan from intended to break an existing Sources from several private Parents also expect that the These loans, provided by the to complete their house. the QDB can never in their life- nexus between some schools and schools confirmed that they have SEC will step in to regulate the state-owned Qatar Development This puts extra financial bur- time even dream of making a business outlets in the sale of received the SEC circular. Most sale of textiles. Bank (QDB), are given on den on them and the result is house of their own, said the daily. school uniforms. schools have stopped selling THE PENINSULA soft terms with long-term that even if both the husband THE PENINSULA US coalition pounds Kobane Jean Tirole wins economics Nobel Personal finance tips for STOCKHOLM/TOULOUSE: French economist Jean Tirole prospective couples won the 2014 Nobel Prize for economics for work that has DOHA: Tips on how to manage Counselling Programme Director. shed light on how governments personal finances and not rely “They will also be told about dis- can “tame” the big businesses on bank loans for marriage will advantages of seeking bank loans that dominate once-public be the highlight of a pre-mar- to finance a lavish marriage. monopolies like railways, high- riage counselling programme “We will also tell them why ways and telecommunications. that is to start soon. pre-marriage health checks are “This year’s prize in economic The five-day session for pro- important for couples wanting to sciences is about taming pow- spective Qatari brides and grooms get married.” erful firms,” Staffan Normark, will be held by Family Counselling In remarks published by Al Permanent Secretary of the Royal Centre (FCC). Sharq yesterday, the official said Swedish Academy of Sciences, The session, from October 19 to most young men marrying face told a news conference. 23, assumes significance as bank this problem of having to repay The academy said Tirole has debt and financial mismanage- bank loans from first day after clarified policies about regulat- ment by husbands have been iden- marriage. There are other aspects ing industries with a few power- tified as one of the main causes of of marriage that are equally ful firms, especially after a wave divorce in Qatar. important such as understand- of privatisations had set govern- The rate of divorce is high ing between the husband and the ments a conundrum over how to and the National Development wife and ways to foster it and psy- encourage private investments in Strategy (2011-16) calls for check- chological issues, said Al Naimi. sectors like healthcare and rail- ing the trend. Pre-marriage counselling for ways while reining in profits. “Participants will be given tips on young Qataris is an ongoing pro- REUTERS how to manage household expenses gramme of FCC and the session See also page 12 A woman reacts as smoke rises from the Syrian town of Kobane after a strike from the US-led coalition as it and make some savings from their will be 20th in the series. seen from the Turkish-Syrian border in the southeastern village of Mursitpinar, Sanliurfa province, yesterday. income,” said Turfa Al Naimi, THE PENINSULA Yemen names new See also page 8 prime minister SANA’A: Yemeni President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi named a top diplomat his new premier British lawmakers ‘vote’ to recognise Palestine yesterday in his second bid this month to solve a political crisis LONDON: British lawmak- it would recognise Palestine. that principled talk into action.” Neither Cameron nor Labour An online petition paving the with Shia rebels that sparked ers voted overwhelmingly in It was initiated by backbencher The vote is non-binding as it leader Ed Miliband was in the way for the debate attracted deadly unrest. favour of recognising Palestine Grahame Morris from the main was initiated by a backbencher. Commons chamber for the start more than 111,000 signatures, Hadi’s nomination of UN envoy as a state yesterday, in a non- opposition Labour party, who said Members of the government, of the debate. Morris said. Before the debate, a Khalid Bahah appeared to have the binding motion heavy with sym- Britain had a “moral responsibil- which backs a two-state solution, Among MPs in the two parties handful of protesters gathered in consent of Huthi rebels, who seized bolism but unlikely to change ity” to act because of its history abstained from the vote. that make up Britain’s coalition pouring rain outside the Houses control of much of the capital Sana’a government policy. as colonial power in the region. “We think that... you should do government, a small number of of Parliament, where they had in a lightning offensive last month. The motion was passed by 274 “It’s absolutely clear that Israel- everything you can that’s support- Cameron’s Conservatives and erected a giant banner say- The naming of a neutral prime in favour to 12 votes against, to Palestine relations are stuck at an ive of a successful and sustain- many Liberal Democrats — whose ing: “Yes Vote for a Palestinian minister is seen as a key step in “recognise the state of Palestine impasse, as is our foreign policy,” able outcome based on a two-state party supports Palestinian state- State”.

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