What about the sky-high price? Chinese parents will not hesitate to send their children to the best schools!
Despite the fact that the best schools in Australia have raised their tuition fees again.
Australia`s elite private secondary schools have announced higher tuition fees in 2018, according to Australian media reports.
Amazing increase! The Australian media used the word "rocket" directly!
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The public teachers` union, the Australian public teachers` union, said yesterday that parents sending their children to an expensive private high school instead of a state-run free public school was a complete "waste of money" and had no idea what they were thinking.
According to Australian unions, the quality of teaching is similar between public and private schools, where tuition fees vary by more than A $30, 000, but they do not understand the mood of their Chinese parents.
But according to the 2017 Australian college entrance examination data released a while ago, private schools can only "easily beat" their grades compared to Australia`s public schools.
Taking advantage of the results-speaking list of college entrance examinations, Australian private schools announced:
Teachers` salaries in private schools will rise 2.9% to 6% in 2018.
To pay for this, it is naturally the parents of Australia, tuition fees naturally rise!
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But Australia`s private schools and teachers` unions haggle each other, "tossing the pot" to teachers, said the increase in teachers` wages exceeded the inflation rate!
Last year, Ascham, HSC`s best-performing private school for girls, raised tuition fees by 3.9 percent this year, and in 2018, 12th grade fees rose to A $37300, or about 190363.379 yuan.
NSW Education Council Chairman Nell Anderson (Nell Anderson) said the increase in tuition fees was a forced choice for schools.
The cost of salaries for Australian private school teachers, which account for 3/4 of total school spending, will continue to rise 7 percent this year, Nell Anderson said.
In response to a letter from, Nell Anderson comforting parents complaining about the increase in tuition fees, Nell Anderson said:
"We all know that teachers are the lifeblood of an excellent school, and it is with the support of a team of excellent teachers that we can achieve good results in all kinds of development."
Teachers` salaries will rise by 2.5% in 2018. We can also see that on the basis of such a high level of education, teachers continue to improve their qualifications and knowledge, so that there is still room for great progress in the industry. "
The Knox Grammar School has raised tuition fees this year to A $44191 or 225532.12 yuan in 2018, up 3.9% from the same period last year.
The King`s School, rose 4 percent to $35697 a year, or 182182.346 yuan.
Tuition for the Barker College,12 grade rose 3.7 percent to $31630, or 161426.104 yuan.
Riverview fees rose 4.6% to A $28200, or 143920.838 yuan.
The International Grammar, an international grammar school, raised tuition fees 4.5 percent to A $24930, or 127232.145 yuan.
Tuition at St Andrews Cathedral School St. Andrews High School rose 4 percent to A $31300, or 159741.924 yuan.
Australia`s former prime minister, Tony Abbott`s alma mater, St Aloysius High School, also raised tuition fees by 6 percent to A $18684, or about 95355.2109 yuan.
Geoff Newcombe, a spokesman for the New South Wales Teachers` Federation, said parents who sent their children to private schools "wasted money."
"the choice of private schools has nothing to do with children, it`s all about parental anxiety and prejudice," he said.
The Chinese have always attached great importance to education from ancient times to the present. Chinese parents in Australia put their children`s education first. At present, the proportion of Chinese children in Australia`s elite private schools is quite high!
Although Australian education claims the quality of teaching, public schools are free but quality is guaranteed, but throughout the years of Australian college entrance examination results. In Victoria, for example, with the exception of the elite government schools Melbourne High and Mac Robertson, most of the top 30 schools are private.
Private schools are known to be expensive, but does the generous spending of parents really pay off?
Private schools do have the highest enrolment rate, according to data. In 2016, the proportion of students attending college after graduation in private schools was nearly 15 percent higher than that in Catholic schools, and nearly 24 percent more than in public schools.
The main reason for the widening gap was that the percentage of Catholic students enrolled in college after graduation plummeted from 62.5 percent in 2015 to 53.9 percent in 2016.
Over the same period, the proportion of private school students enrolled in university rose from 64.3% to 68.7%, while the proportion of public school students continuing to pursue a bachelor`s degree remained stable at about 45.5%.
Australia has the highest enrolment rate in private schools among all OECD members and maintains the highest levels of private spending on education.
A comparison of Australia`s secondary school admissions data shows that there is no reversal in the trend of continuing student flows to private schools.
In addition, the irreversible, but also the increasing tuition fees of private schools!
