HH Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of the Executive Council, stressed that education is of paramount importance to the UAE leadership. Our goal in the UAE in general and the Emirate of Dubai in particular is to improve our educational system, Rashed Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, to create an innovative learning environment that will ensure the global competitiveness of our educational institutions and our children to be a regional and international destination for education and learning.
Hamdan bin Mohammed: "Education is a top national priority and we seek to keep pace with future developments in this sector." - "We aim to build an innovative educational system that ensures global competitiveness for our children." - "We encourage and diversify investment in education, allowing parents the freedom to choose the schools most suitable for their children." |
His Highness the Crown Prince of Dubai said that meeting the needs of the future labor market requires that the successive developments in the education sector be integrated into all stages of life. This requires the enactment of proactive legislation in a manner that ensures the strengthening of the relationship between educational service providers and investors with students and their families through an integrated system aimed at strengthening strategic partnerships To build an innovative educational system that ensures global competitiveness for our children, in order to balance the number of available high-quality seats, and to give parents the freedom to choose the most appropriate schools to meet their aspirations to develop their children's skills .
HH Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of the Executive Council, met yesterday at the Emirates Towers, in the presence of His Highness Sheikh Maktoum bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai, First Deputy Chairman of the Executive Council. .
The participants were briefed on KHDA's proposal to develop and modernize the school fees framework in Dubai, which was developed in consultation with all stakeholders and based on feedback from parents and educational service providers, aimed at diversifying educational options available to parents and facilitating Access to quality educational services at affordable prices.
The updated framework, adopted by the Council, takes into consideration the interests of students and their parents as beneficiaries of educational services, as well as providing an appropriate environment for educational service providers, encouraging them to improve the quality of education in Dubai by creating an integrated mechanism for tuition fees and studying the educational and economic aspects. The interests of the parties to the educational process are students and service providers.
The updated framework for the organization of school fees in the Emirate of Dubai, which will enter into force from the next academic year 2019-2020, is an integrated system that balances the needs of parents on the one hand and helps private schools continue to improve the quality of their education on the other. In line with Dubai's position as an international and regional destination that attracts learning and learning.
The updated framework is based on the annual assessment of the Dubai School Inspectorate and the cost of education index adopted by the Dubai Statistics Center as part of its efforts to motivate private schools to enhance their performance and reward them if they are able to improve the quality of education offered.
In this context, the updated framework specifies that fees should not be allowed for private schools whose profitability is declining in the quality of education according to the classification of the school monitoring system in Dubai. The private schools that maintain the same evaluation compared to the previous year, While the former system allowed schools to increase by the same value of the education index as well as a value associated with school performance quality.
According to the quality indicators of private schools in Dubai over the past years, about 90% of students will not exceed the increase in school fees for their next school year 2019-2020. The cost of education index of 2.07%.
With the introduction of the updated framework, the potential increase in school fees will exceed the cost of education index in less than 10% of students. In contrast, if the previous framework is applied, the increase in school fees would exceed the cost of education index of more than 60% Students.
The framework allows private schools that are progressing in quality from "very good" to "privileged" by adjusting their fees one-and-a-half times the value of the cost of education index, and schools that improve their quality of education from "good" to "very good" "By 1.75 percent of the cost of education, so that schools that upgrade their performance from" very weak "to" weak "," weak "to" acceptable "or" acceptable "to" good " , By modifying their fees by twice the value of the cost of education index, in an effort to provide the potential that supports these schools, Schools that serve a large segment of students at a reasonable cost.
According to the Education Cost Index of the Dubai Statistics Center for 2018 (2.07%), eligible private schools under the new framework will be able to adjust their school fees for the next academic year 2019-2020, according to the latest assessment by the Knowledge and Human Development Authority Later in the current school year.
The resulting impact on the new framework is expected to be lower than in the previous frame, as a result of rewarding schools that maintain or improve their performance, rather than allowing all private schools to increase their annual fees based solely on the cost of education index.
To stimulate private schools that offer quality education in a "good" category at a reasonable cost, KHDA has decided to develop a proposal for incentive incentives for these schools, providing diverse options for quality and affordable education for parents.
Non-educational services
The fees for non-educational services, such as school transportation, uniforms and school supplies, which are not included in the school fees, and in order to take into consideration the interests of parents, the Authority proposed to organize any increase in these services in coordination with the relevant authorities.