School fees really have a way of taking it out of you, and come next year, parents sending their kids to private schools are going to spend a lot more time squeezing.
The current reality is that one of South Africa’s most expensive private day schools broke through the R240,000 barrier. That’s for a single matric year, by the way.
A Pretoria businessman has been accused of living a high life with fancy cars and a swanky house while conveniently forgetting to pay his ex-wife’s spousal maintenance, his two kids’ school fees, and some other bills.
Forget the price of nappies, toys, and three nutritious meals a day, because sending your kids to school is where the real pocket-burner is.
Let it also be noted that the 2023 school fees don’t include all the extra costs for parents with kids at private schools.
Best-case scenario, your kid gets a full scholarship because they’re a prodigy. For the rest, it’s going to be a pricey ride.
Dubbed the “School of Kings”, Institut Le Rosey in Switzerland has an impressive 5 000-strong alumni consisting of various dynastic families, monarchs, and billionaires.
Whenever I look at the cost of school fees these days I shudder. As bad as they are now, they’ll be much, much worse when your toddler makes it to high school.
Despite calls from education experts to freeze private school fees in 2021, the cost of private education is still on the rise.
Parents educating their children at home have some pressing questions about whether or not they should continue paying school fees.
They say you can’t put a price on a good education, but for what they’re charging, these schools better deliver the goods.
Hilton’s annual school fees recently hit the R300 000-a-year mark, but how does that compare to Eton College, one of the UK’s most expensive private schools?
If you want to give your kids a private school education, this place offers the ultimate pre-university training, at a cost that will blow your mind.
Apparently parents of girls at Roedean School are in shock, after news that a 22-year-old man was arrested for breaking into the hostel did the rounds.
Well done on making another human, parents – now get ready to pay for that privilege. Some of these school fees projections are pretty terrifying.
Plan on having children some time soon? Well if this is what it costs now imagine when your young’un hits school age.
We know teacher-student sexual relationships get people all kinds of worked up and for good reason. How do you feel, then, about someone getting the sack for hooking up with a former pupil?
Are you afraid of the dark? Sorry for you. Eskom says the darkness will carry on for a good few years. You can either invest in a candle factory or go Off The Grid.
Ever heard the saying ‘you can’t put a price on a good education’? Well they did, and it is going to get very, very expensive.