17 August 2017
Parents in the United Arab Emirates could end up paying almost one million dirhams in education fees to put one child all the way through school and university, according to a new report.
Research by Zurich International insurance company in the Middle East concluded that the cost of educating one child from pre-school to university costs 938,599 dirhams ($255,749).
Zurich said the figure is based on the total cost of putting a child through two years of pre-school, six years at primary school, six years of secondary school and three years at a university in the United Kingdom.
According to another report on education fees in the UAE published last month by HSBC, education costs in the emirates are the second-highest in the world after Hong Kong.
A member of the UAE’s Federal National Council (FNC) earlier this year voiced concerns about the rising cost of education, Gulf News reported in April.
“Parents are extremely worried as they pay out an ever-increasing, unjustified rate for private school fees. So I wanted to know the measures and criteria set by the Education Ministry to curb this problem and safeguard parents against exploitation from some unscrupulous businessmen,” Azza Sulaiman Bin Sulaiman, FNC member from Dubai told Gulf News.
Prominent Emirati businessman Mohamed Alabbar also said during a press conference announcing the results of the annual ASDA'A Burson-Marsteller Arab Youth Survey in May that education fees in the UAE are far too high.
Further reading:
Parents in the United Arab Emirates could end up paying almost one million dirhams in education fees to put one child all the way through school and university, according to a new report.
Research by Zurich International insurance company in the Middle East concluded that the cost of educating one child from pre-school to university costs 938,599 dirhams ($255,749).
Zurich said the figure is based on the total cost of putting a child through two years of pre-school, six years at primary school, six years of secondary school and three years at a university in the United Kingdom.
According to another report on education fees in the UAE published last month by HSBC, education costs in the emirates are the second-highest in the world after Hong Kong.
A member of the UAE’s Federal National Council (FNC) earlier this year voiced concerns about the rising cost of education, Gulf News reported in April.
“Parents are extremely worried as they pay out an ever-increasing, unjustified rate for private school fees. So I wanted to know the measures and criteria set by the Education Ministry to curb this problem and safeguard parents against exploitation from some unscrupulous businessmen,” Azza Sulaiman Bin Sulaiman, FNC member from Dubai told Gulf News.
Prominent Emirati businessman Mohamed Alabbar also said during a press conference announcing the results of the annual ASDA'A Burson-Marsteller Arab Youth Survey in May that education fees in the UAE are far too high.
Further reading:
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- Education 2020: How private sector schooling in UAE will expand
- UAE education sector discusses draft of a moral education curriculum
- Licensed to teach: UAE concerned about standards of education
- UAE education sector discusses draft of a moral education curriculum
- Healthcare and education private equity investment analysed in the UAE
