The Association of Parents of Children in Church Schools (APCCS) expressed concern about the use and protection of personal data of students and their relatives.
The APCCS is seriously concerned about the contents of Legal Notice 76 of 2014. LN 76/2014 gives the Minister responsible for Education and Employment the right to obtain personal information and data about every student and his/her realtives in any educational institution, that is “any childcare, school or other institution or entity offering education, whether at a pre-primary, primary, secondary, post-secondary or tertiary level and also includes further and higher educational institutions and institutions offering formal and non-formal learning and vocational education”.
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