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Parents must sign fee payment undertaking to prevent dues
Starting this academic year, expatriates studying in public schools in the emirate will have a new procedure to follow in the payment of fees.
This is to ensure that payment delays and non-settlement of dues are prevented, said the Abu Dhabi Education Council (Adec).
The tuition fee in government schools is Dh6,000 per year for Grades 1-12.
According to the new procedure, parents will be required to sign the Fee Payment Undertaking Form at the school in person. If the fee is paid by a third party (employers or charities), the parent still have to sign the undertaking and submit a certificate from the payer promising to pay the fee within the set timelines.
The parents who declined to sign the undertaking will receive a warning letter, followed by a notification letter advising parents not to enrol their kids in any public school the next year.
The parents who defaulted in payment and received a final warning letter will also be advised that their children will not be accepted in future. The Adec would pursue the collection of fee through a legal action.
The new procedure was imposed following the non-payment of fee by some 15,000 expatriate students for the past three years. Last month, in a generous gesture, the President, His Highness Shaikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, paid around Dh192 million of the uncollected fees to the council.
Students exempted from paying the tuition fee in government schools include the Emiratis, children of UAE female nationals, GCC children, children of diplomatic card-holders, holders of decrees issued by the President or the Vice-President and orphans sponsored by UAE nationals.
Expatriate students who go to school for free include children of staff working at the Adec who were transferred from the Ministry of Education (limit of two) and children of female employees occupying administrative, teaching or technical positions at the Adec, provided they are widows or married to an incapacitated husbands, or divorced and supporting their children.
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