mais91

Just had my offer through which includes 5,000 a month for school fees, I have 2 kids (11 & 13 yrs) and we are moving to AD in July.

Is this enough?

Does anyone know what the fees are at the Al Yasmina school - we have e.mailed for details but no reply as yet.

Cheers

Paul

ScotsExpat

How old and how many do you have???

mais91

Two an 11 yr old boy and a 13yr old girl

Karlos The Jackal

Paul

The fees are posted on their website !

mais91

do you have the web address - done a search and cant find it

Karlos The Jackal

http://www.aldaracademies.com/yasmina.php

There we go mate, trying to get mine in at the same school at the minute, don't bother waiting for a mail reply, took them a few days to get back to us.

Download the form, gather all the necessary info etc. and get it back to them, thats all they told us !

Karl

mais91

Cheers Karl

Dont know if its me being thick but I cant see anything about fees?

So when are you moving out? Decided on a location?

Are you going to be renting a villa - doesnt look there is much about for less than 250,000!!

Karlos The Jackal

Found it but for some reason I can't copy it

School Fees

KG1 - Year 6 - 12000 Dirhams Per Term
Years 7 & 8 - 14000 Dirhams Per Term
Year 9 - 15000 Dirhams Per Term

We are having a break over there as a family in mid May, I will be going out for my three month 'probation' early June

Accomodation is provided by my employer so unsure of location at present, hopefully near the Al Raha Beach project !

mais91

So looking like about 90,000 per annum for the 2 kids then.

Thanks for your help

Just got back from a 5 day trip - but only managed to spend 2 days in AD and that was mainly spent in the business district - really wanted to get more time to look around the residential areas.

We are leaning towards Kalifa City A due to location and proximity to schools but dont know too much about it as yet - im hoping it has a good expat community and a few parks / footy pitches etc - but we will see!!

Grace O Malley

Hi

Khalifa A has nothing! It will be brilliant in maybe 1/2 years time but right now there is nowt and if you have youngish children they will have to be driven in to the city and collected at the weekends to meet their mates

I know alot of people with young children and teenagers who want to move into the city . Raha would be a better bet

As for school fees remember to add on uniform, transportation ( if on bus), packed lunches or fees for lunch and everything else they will add on and they do!

The school trips every year etc etc

I just got a bill for 2500 dhs for my sons GCSE entrance fees

and remember the fees will go up every year

Al Khubeirat are 15.800 for next year or there abouts, they have gone up from 11.500 to this amount in about 3 years

Also there is the non refundable entrance fee?

Karlos The Jackal

Seems that they are cashing in on all the ex-pats being over there and in all honesty who can blame them Anna ?

Kids will always need schooling and good schools are hard to come by !

Grace O Malley

They are having to hike the fees so high just to pay the salaries of the teachers as they have to be in line with UK teaching salaries and also the school has ot pay the staff accommodaton. iThe only people cashing in is the greedy landlords that have doubled the house rents in the last 2 years

The standard of educaiton is not great its average, most of the schools in AD are fee paying comprehensives.

Madam Medusa

the fees here are still significantly lower than in uk private schools...

MM, xx

Grace O Malley

Oh yes agreed but these are not private schools, you are not getting all the extras that you would get at a private school.

Madam Medusa

what...the blazer and boater...!!!

MM, xx