What I mean is - I remember reading in a grammar book about singular/plural collective nouns, and for example the following sentence" The Headquarters is/are located three miles away from here" , both is/are can be used as the word 'headquarters' can refer to headquarters as a single entity (a building) or several entities (a number of buildings together). Hence I wonder if the same rule can be applied to the word 'school fees'(I do understand that school is a collective noun whereas fees is not), since when we talk about school fees, we can also be referring to miscellanous fees etc etc. Opinions?