Discounts were offered to fill vacancies

Private schools allow enrollment in kindergartens for a fee of 3000 dirhams

The occupancy rate in kindergarten classes in private schools is less than 70%.

From the source

Private schools announced that students will continue to enroll in kindergarten classes for the current academic year in the distance education system, with fees starting from 3000 dirhams, while other schools have offered offers to register students for the current year, with a 25% discount on the fees for the next academic year.

In detail, "Emirates Today" monitored private schools in Abu Dhabi publishing advertisements on their accounts on social media, and sending text messages to students' families announcing the continued registration of students in the kindergarten stage for the current academic year, with fees starting from 3000 dirhams, with the offering of Discounts on fees for the first semester of next year.

And private schools (American, Arab and British curricula) announced the opening of registration in Kindergarten II, for fees for the third semester only, to ensure that the student is registered in the first grade of the next academic year, and the schools indicated that the priority of registration is for the siblings of students who are registered with them, and that the offer is available for a week Or until the vacant seats are completed, as a private school (British curriculum) announced a 20% deduction from the fees for the third semester for students registered in the distance education system, if the fees are paid before the first of next April, while the same discount continues for the first semester. From next year.

Officials in private schools: Muhammad Rafiq, Farouk Abdel Nasser, and Hala Saeed attributed the continued registration in kindergarten classes for the current academic year towards the end of the second semester, to the presence of vacant seats in most schools in this educational stage, given the fear of many of registering their children in light of The continuation of the Corona pandemic, and distance education, especially since education in kindergartens is optional, and not mandatory.

They emphasized that most schools have an occupancy rate of less than 70% in kindergarten classes, as a result of parents ’fear of sending their children to schools in light of the" Covid-19 "pandemic, and that many of them do not believe that a child at this age is able to assimilate through education. Therefore, they preferred to postpone their registration until they reach the age of the first grade, where education is compulsory, in addition to the presence of vacancies in the rest of the classes as a result of students moving to other schools, or transferring them to government schools.

Private school fees

Official statistics revealed that the average tuition fees for distinguished private schools ranges between 31 thousand and 129 dirhams per year, up to 81 thousand and 452 dirhams, and the list of average fees for private schools in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, which is numbering 225 schools, showed that 58 schools have an average tuition less than 10 thousand dirhams, while the average fee for 54 schools ranges between 10 thousand and less than 20 thousand dirhams, 47 schools average fees between 20 thousand dirhams and less than 30 thousand dirhams, and 31 schools average fees between 30 and 40 thousand dirhams, while the average fees for 35 schools increase Especially on 40 thousand dirhams.

School officials attributed continued enrollment in kindergartens to vacant seats.

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