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Rise in school enrolment 'disproves expat exodus'
by This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it on Monday, 1 June 2009Posted on Wednesday, 3 June 2009
School Feed
Posted by simran at 15:29 UAE time
I can openly state that the south asian schools will be rising in admisssions since some of us who had put our children in the international schools have realised the pathetic quality of education , low academic standards and no spirit of competition for children in these schools which has made us move them to the old thought of action wherein your own education was the best . When it worked for you why not your child and his future .
Please get the authorities to check the quality , the books and also the subject covered . As the end of the year approaches the portions are rushed through , chapters left and homework sent to be completed to show that the concepts are done where is the learning curve of a child going in these international schools .
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Hike in Fees - Unfair
Posted by Nacheez at 12:39 UAE time
I have received a notice from my child's school that since their school has been graded 'Good' they are entitled to increase the fees by 12%. What a way to wash away all the 'good' work!
So basically what the school management is saying is that 'Business is Business, thats why private equity firms own part of GEMs school now', 'What social responsibility?' and 'As long as we have a waiting list, we can afford to be unreasonable'. What a pity!. The get-rich-quick philosophy wreaked havoc with the US economy and now the same private equity firm thinking is slowly destroying the education system in Dubai.
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hike in school fees due to KHDA inspection
Posted by mushtaque rangwala at 09:12 UAE time
i agree with BNK,recently i got cicular from dubai scholars that they are increaing 9% fees for next which is not right at this stituation where the people are losing jobs every now and then,schools should cancel this fees with immediate effect,come on guy when our time was good we paid fee hike every alternate year and also in form of school bus fees increased from 900 dhms to 2500 dhms last year, now its your time to manage,i donot understand how the schools expenses increases every year wher the staff is same education system and quality is same and facilities are same so only making excuses of rent increase they charge 2000dhms from each stidents as fee hike which multipiled by 1000 students which goes in to poc ket of management who are minting money and KHDA is sitting and watching
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school fees
Posted by Joh at 09:05 UAE time
Can anyone tell us which in which country do we hear schools increasing fees every year? Infact when i was in school back in the home country, school fees did not increase the whole 10 years, the slabs remained unchanged. I fail to understand the fee increase in schools that existed in a particular place for the last so many years. Now on the basis of inspection and school gradation, they will increase fees. This is rediculous. The government must plan to introduce government aided schools so that the new generation kids can learn without frills and come out to serve this country better. This monopoly of private schools must end. Please note, we have a majority in this population who cannot afford arbitrary fee increase which have no logic to support the action. Unfortunately for parents, they will have to sacrifice to retain the kid with the family here and bear the increasing expense. But one day kids will have to leave. The schools will feel no difference because for every kid that leaves, there will be a new who enters which will help to maintain the heavy profits for the schools. I also recommend that government can ask RTA to introduce school buses and that will be cheaper while RTA will ensure continuous income from a new segment of market whilst the monopoly of school owned buses will stop.
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Posted on Tuesday, 2 June 2009
Cherry picking
Posted by Etisalgood at 15:58 UAE time
Sounds a lot like cherry picking statistics to me! Why focus only on Indian and Pakistani schools? Until the officials share information on overall enrolment across all schools, color me skeptical.
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Question
Posted by J John Sr. at 15:28 UAE time
Question to ask. What is the increase in fees in the Indian/Pakistan schools as compared to the increase in the other schools? It could easily be that Indian and Pakistan nationals are moving their kids from schools where there were huge fee hikes to the Indian and Pakistan schools ?? I would like to know about the enrollment in the other schools.
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School Exploitation in Dubai
Posted by WHATAN at 11:51 UAE time
The Governement should cap all school fees at the 2008/09 levels for the next 2 years. It is absolutely unacceptable that schools are allowed to increase fees!!
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Increase in Fee
Posted by BNK at 10:32 UAE time
I totally agree with Ahmad Sana.
I also received a fee increment note from the school yesterday for 9%.
This school never increased the fee in last 10+ years, due to the so called assessment of KHDA, the school took advantage of doing this. Meaning this increase is purely due to Govt. rules, the school would not have increased the fee, what kind of system we are living in?? No idea?
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this does not work
Posted by sameer singh at 10:12 UAE time
Why dont they just say there is a problem and this is what we are doing to tackle. I am sure this approach is going make people feel confident and attract more people. Whole world is facing a problem not just dubai so nothing to be ashamed off.
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Rise in School Enrollment
Posted by Mrs Kunzru at 09:55 UAE time
The fees in the Indian and Pakistani schools are much much more reasonable and realistic. If we were Indians or Pakistanis, we too would move our children to these schools. In our opinion they are academically better. So we are not surprised in the increase of enrollments there. I pray that schools remain dedicated in providing good education for the sake of our future generation and not just for the sake of high profits.
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rise in school fees
Posted by Ahmad Sana at 09:44 UAE time
Its a shame that after Dubai government assessment of schools, Schools administrations have increased school using assessment as a basis.
How can schools do that and why government is not stopping them. People living in UAE are already bad hitted by recession do the authorities wants all people to leave?
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School Enrolment
Posted by Sal at 09:22 UAE time
I am another parent leaving this country and taking 3 of kids out of the school. I like Dubai for many reasons but lack of transparency, lack of expertise to handle crisis like finance, lack of justice for employees and greed from authorities to make money makes all western countries I lived less materialistic than Dubai. This is wake up call for Dubai. Listen and change.
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Disprove expat exodus?
Posted by Bob at 08:14 UAE time
Yeah right, give me a break. Lets just call a spade a spade. There is right now and there will be at the end of June an eye opening exodus that will contradict Mr Omar bin Sulaiman or whomever is producing these statistics.
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May be....
Posted by KB at 08:13 UAE time
People who moved to other emirate due to high rents in Dubai are moving back in Dubai along with their wards. Does this bring increase in enrolment? Hummmmmm...
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Posted on Monday, 1 June 2009
Who Are They Trying To Fool?
Posted by vexed at 23:22 UAE time
I understand that as a government, it is the duty of the state to protect its inhabitants from feeling threatened by the current economic situation. However, feeding us incorrect information is not right. My family and I are relocating in July out of the UAE and I have been pleasantly pleased to note that we are not a minority. People are tired of this plastic life where propaganda is used to keep people around and the lure of the "Tax Free" money keeps many hooked when in reality, its simply not true. We will never belong, the money will never be ours and our kids are going to be a "Lost Generation" who cannot call themselves UAEites! What a tragedy :(
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