Best Posts in Thread: One International School

My daughter is at Cittadini (next to Don Bosco) and I have said here before I am happy with her education thus far. The cost structure has been the same in her entry year as it is for the coming year. A 10,000p down payment (plus a small P & C membership) at registration and then a monthly amount depending on the year of study increasing as she advances through the grades. So for instance, she is starting Grade 3. Total Cost 37,535p plus P & C being down payment 10k then monthly 3,100p and 2,735p in March. Offer a 5% discount if you pay up front. This includes all text books which are provided.

 

Heard thru the grapevine that ALL One International students are being hit with the added fee, NOT APPLICABLE TO THE TUITION. Older students are being hit with a P 100,000 EXTRA fee on TOP of tuition. Sounds like a whole bunch of parents are thinking of bailing out..

Maybe i'm just truly ignorant of the Philippine culture, but i can't imagine any Filipino or foreigner, no matter how wealthy, forking over that much without some guarantee that it wouldn't happen next semester... An excellent case study for business schools.

WOULD LIKE TO CONFIRM IF THIS IS OR IS NOT APPLICABLE TO TUITION AT ONE INT'L ?????????

 

San Pedro Academy in Valencia is just 1,200 per month and that includes books.

 

Is the reservation fee is applied to the tuition or an additional cost? They could be trying to establish commitment from students that are registering. Maybe they get a lot of people who register and then decide to go to a different school. By the time the school is notified other prospective students have already been turned away and they can't get additional students since they have already registered somewhere else because they couldn't get into OIS. My guess it's applied to the tuition cost so it's really a fee to see who is committed to going to the school and who isn't. How competitive is it to get in the schools like Montessori, Don Bosco and OIS? I wonder how many returning students don't return. There are a couple examples in this short thread.

 

Through what I saw with my step child in the education system (Public) very little is taught. In my home country some students avoid the classroom but in Philippines it seems it is the teachers who prefer not to be there.

However, the issue of fees is purely 'market-forces' and as soon as ONE loses too many students it will review its policy on reservation fees. If enough parents are willing to pay then they have no reason to replace that system.

 

This school is great but its too expensive. Not affordable. For kids 2-4yrs old, the fee is 120,000 a year or 12k/month

 

I transferred my boy from One International School to Don Bosco, also an English language school, because of the cost. If you can afford One International, it is a great school.
Btw, Tagalog, the Filipino national language, is called Filipino not Tagalog now, at least at the Don Bosco language class.