Tag Archives: School Fees

The story of Ms Jaycie Tay that we shared last week now comes full circle. Jaycie was at a difficult crossroad of her life when she met Mr John Shu, a kind Samaritan who helped pay for her Diploma in Marketing Management with Kaplan, despite having to manage his own daughter’s polytechnic fees.

The school fees in special needs schools tend to be much higher ($350/month in the case of Pathlight) than in mainstream schools (although there are subsidies for the needy). I shared my view that parents of special needs children should not be paying any more in school fees, than those with children in mainstream schools.

SMU Students, pls help. I lost a white envelope which had my school fees in cash (kept in my tiger print laptop case) today. I am really miserable right now because I just called up the SMU library security guard but he said no such item was found.

I like to inform you besides PCF and NTUC's My First Skool, other childcare centre are also increasing childcare school fees. My son goes to YMCA childcare and look what I received on 25 September? YMCA follow in PCF and MyFirstSkool footsteps to up the school fees. All cite the same usual excuses for the increase.

Shortly after the Singapore government announced that Government-aided schools would require non-citizens to pay higher school fees in an attempt to "further differentiate fees by citizenship", some self-entitled foreigners have reportedly been up in arms. A number of foreigners, whose children are in government schools, decried the move as an attempt to "please citizens" and "push the foreigners away".

The Ministry of Education (MOE) has announced today that it will revise school fees for Singapore Permanent Residents (PRs) and international students (IS) in Government and Government-aided schools from January 2016. MOE says that this is part of a "periodic review of school fees" to "further differentiate fees by citizenship".

It states that “During this period, all Singaporean and permanent resident children in the centres will enjoy a rebate equivalent to the fee increase amount,” PCF said. This means the new fees will only take effect from July 1 next year. “We are reaching out to all parents to inform them of this rebate,” the PCF said.” Does this not sound familiar? Increase fees and then give a temporary rebate due to the public furore over the fee increase when profits increased by 24.7 per cent over the previous year!

According to the PCF’s 2014 Financial Statement – its surplus for the year increased from $942,861 (Jan 1 to Dec 31 2013) to $1,469.575 (Jan 1 2014 to Mar 31 2015). This is an increase of 24.7 per cent ($1,175,660 divided by $942,861) compared to the previous year. With such a huge increase in the surplus (profits) – is the across the board increase in fees justified?

All German universities will offer free higher education starting this week, after the region of Lower Saxony changed its policies to fit with the rest of the country. German policy-makers say that free university education for all is a basic right, and that tuition fees are unfair and discourage poorer students from continuing with their education.