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Doha
The Ministry of Education and Higher Education has agreed to increase the tuition fees for 28 private schools and kindergartens, out of
126 applicants, for the academic year 2019-20. The total number of private schools and kindergartens in the country
is 287.
In a press conference on Sunday, the Director of Private Schools Licensing Department at the Ministry of Education and Higher Education, Hamad al Ghali, said the rate of increase of fees approved for 28 private schools and kindergartens ranged between 3 and 10 percent.
The reasons for the fee hike are schools’ need for financial support, improving academic and educational outcome, financial deficit despite the schools’ commitment to operational capacity, school shifting to another building and increase in the rent.
On why other schools failed to get the nod for hike in tuition fees they applied for, he said there were several reasons. One, it included the failure to attach three financial statements required to examine schools’ financial performance. Two, the decline in profits or lack of it was a result of poor management rather than low fees. Another reason was the inaccurate or incomplete data furnished by some applicants.
Ghali said the registration in all the state’s schools will be from March 3 to October 17, 2019.
The deadline for registering students coming from abroad is the end of January 2020, he added. Students eligible for kindergarten must be born before September 30, 2016. As for primary education, students must be born before September 30, 2014.
Doha
The Ministry of Education and Higher Education has agreed to increase the tuition fees for 28 private schools and kindergartens, out of
126 applicants, for the academic year 2019-20. The total number of private schools and kindergartens in the country
is 287.
In a press conference on Sunday, the Director of Private Schools Licensing Department at the Ministry of Education and Higher Education, Hamad al Ghali, said the rate of increase of fees approved for 28 private schools and kindergartens ranged between 3 and 10 percent.
The reasons for the fee hike are schools’ need for financial support, improving academic and educational outcome, financial deficit despite the schools’ commitment to operational capacity, school shifting to another building and increase in the rent.
On why other schools failed to get the nod for hike in tuition fees they applied for, he said there were several reasons. One, it included the failure to attach three financial statements required to examine schools’ financial performance. Two, the decline in profits or lack of it was a result of poor management rather than low fees. Another reason was the inaccurate or incomplete data furnished by some applicants.
Ghali said the registration in all the state’s schools will be from March 3 to October 17, 2019.
The deadline for registering students coming from abroad is the end of January 2020, he added. Students eligible for kindergarten must be born before September 30, 2016. As for primary education, students must be born before September 30, 2014.
