The education ministry is considering increasing financial aid to low-income families with children attending private high schools to cover their tuition, according to a senior ministry official.

The Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Ministry intends to set a household income ceiling to ensure it can obtain the necessary fiscal resources by reviewing the current tuition aid program for high schools.

The ministry plans to decide on the details of the program by summer when it makes a budgetary request for fiscal 2014, the senior official said.