GEMS Education to open private schools in the UK
Dubai-based GEMS Education is planning to venture out in the UK by setting up private schools with fees at half the price of top schools in the country.
As reported by Arabian Business, GEMS intends to open six fee-paying day schools for boys and girls aged three to 18 in towns and cities across England over the next two years.
It is said that GEMS aims to charge parents between £8,000 and £12,000 a year – about half or a third of the price of some of the country’s leading public schools.
Categories: Business in Dubai, Education, Living in Dubai Tags: Education, GEMS, UK
More chaos with Dubai Modern High School
Dubai Modern High School wants to keep in the news. Apparently it is persistent with its move to new Dhs 200 Million campus, and subsequent fee hike.
The school issued a circular that it will be moving to its new Dh200 million site in Nad Al Sheba because there is no overwhelming support from parents to pay the fee increase at the old premises.
The circular stated that the move will be effected once all the necessary approvals from government authorities are given for the new building and the new fee structure.
Categories: Living in Dubai Tags: Dubai Modern High School, Education, GEMS, KHDA, Nad Al Sheba
GEMS has another trick up its sleeve
Despite Dubai’s Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA) education authority’s announcement announcing that it will come out with a new fee structure for private schools, Dubai Modern High School run by the Global Education Management Systems (GEMS) has asked parents to vote for a fee increase so as to be considered as a? “special case”.
Khaleej Times reports that parents of students have been asked to vote in favour of a “unanimously agreed” fee increase to continue on the existing campus. Members of the parent committee have, however, denied that there was any unanimously agreed fee increase.
Categories: Living in Dubai Tags: Dubai Modern High School, Education, GEMS, KHDA
GEMS Launches Education Insurance Scheme For School Fee Payments in Dubai
GEMS introduced an education insurance programme that assures funding of pupils’ tuition fees in the event of death or total disability of the family’s primary bread winner.
Himmat Sandhu, Director, School Business Operations and Administration, Global Education Management System Education (GEMS), said EduShield programme offers global coverage for the parent and a tuition fee payout facility anywhere in the world, without geographical restrictions.
The maximum payout is between $225,000 (Dh825,750) and $600,000 at annual premium of Dh375 to Dh575 respectively.
The customised education insurance programme is the result of a collaborated effort between Marsh Insco LLC, and GEMS Education.
Categories: Living in Dubai Tags: Education, EduShield, GEMS, Marsh Insco LLC
Parent Survey and Forum against Fee Hike at Dubai Modern High School
Parents are continuing their grievances against fee hike by Dubai Modern High School (managed by GEMS).
Pradeep (doing excellent coverage of Dubai Modern High School situation), gave links to online survey and Facebook forum at his blog. The links are:
- Survey at Survey Monkey (only parents are requested to fill the survey form)
- Facebook forum
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Dubai Schools relax payment plan in the wake of credit crunch
While schools like Dubai Modern High School are hiking their tuition fees to more than 90% fees in a session, there are some schools in Dubai who are relaxing payment plans for parents effected by recession and credit crunch.
Arabian Business quoted Clive Pierrepont, director of communications and marketing at Taaleem, which runs seven schools in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, “Some of our parents are unfortunately experiencing financial difficulties. Our schools are very sympathetic to their plight.”
Schools are assessing individual fees payments on a “case by case” basis for parents who have been made redundant.
Categories: Living in Dubai Tags: GEMS, Taaleem
GEMS Managed schools raising tuition fees to new heights
I used to complain about private schools in Pakistan who raise their fees without giving a damn about inflation and cost of living. Schools in Dubai, it seems, are not way behind their counterparts in Pakistan.
Dubai Modern High School, a GEMS managed school, has released its fee structure for the academic sessions of 2009-2010 and 2010-2011, which shows an exponential raise in tuition fees.
Parents have complained that they don’t need bigger facilities or state-of-the-art swimming pools on the cost of such an exponential increase in fees, especially at this time of financial turmoil.
Categories: Living in Dubai Tags: Dubai Modern High School, Education, GEMS