{"id":19311,"date":"2015-10-02T12:14:46","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T04:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.imoney.my\/articles\/?p=19311"},"modified":"2016-05-27T12:29:09","modified_gmt":"2016-05-27T04:29:09","slug":"malaysian-parents-are-paying-the-price-with-singapore-school-fees-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imoney.my\/articles\/malaysian-parents-are-paying-the-price-with-singapore-school-fees-hike","title":{"rendered":"Malaysian Parents Are Paying The Price With Singapore School Fees Hike"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is not cheap to send your child to study in the best schools in the world<\/a>. Parents whose children are schooling in Singapore are seeing yet another price increase in the Singapore school fees, beginning next year.<\/p>\n

This comes as a double whammy for thousands of parents due to the weakening Ringgit. Ringgit is now 3.08 against the Singapore Dollar, as of October 2, 2015.<\/p>\n

More than 10,000 children from Johor attend school in Singapore, but many of their parents are now considering local private or international schools<\/a>, as the school fees and transportation cost have now come up to almost RM2,000 per child, per month.<\/p>\n

According to an article published by The Star Online<\/a><\/em>, V. Meena, 47, a housewife, would be paying an additional S$120 (RM360) for both her children who are studying across the Causeway.<\/p>\n

She told online portal that her younger child\u2019s new fees would be S$370 (RM1,110), S$20 (RM60) more while fees for her elder child would be S$550 (RM1,650), an increase of S$100 (RM300).<\/p>\n

Meena said she would have to look at other options such as putting them in local private or international schools.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhatever I do, I need to think about them as surely they will miss their schoolmates whom they are close to,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

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