[Skunkworks] <OT>smoke detectors

Good people, Can someone in the know tell me why it is *impossible* for the Ministry of education to mandate all dormitories to have smoke detectors? My reasoning is that it will take just one incident for my sibling in school to die from smoke/fire, just one, and they are gone forever. Plus these damn detectors aint that expensive, $45<http://www.consumersearch.com/smoke-detectors>for one which uses both photoeletric and ionization technology.