Australia - British Expat Forum

I am shortly going to be moving over to study brick laying at the Sunshine Coast TAFE college in Nambour. I am entering with my family on a student visa for initially a period of two years.....Hopefully longer!

Anyway I have just found out that the education authority are expecting me to pay $2,000 per child (of which I have ywo) per term .....of which there are 4 terms per year. I nearly fell off my perch at this stage as the full realisation hit me that I am going to have to fork out $16,000 per year to school my kids in a state school .......!!! I could accept it if I was sending them top private school but not state school. They are only 9 and 10 years old ....is this beaurocracy gone mad?

Has any one got any advice form me?

Thanks.

Fergoid

That's only the start of it. Then comes the uniform, a few more hundred dollars there, (times 2) they have winter and summer outfits, but you can always buy at a fraction of the cost from the school clothing pool. These are good outgrown items that are donated to the clothing pool. Then there are the books etc, which each student is given a list of, each term. That leaves the excursions etc and any other necessities, fundraisers and the like.

Nothing is free where education is concerned, and even the top private schools still send home requests for further donations for this that and anything else they can think of, even after charging huge term fees.

SSue 8)

If education is that expensive stay at home. I am sure that would please
your extended family. If you really want a good deal in education come to Northern Ireland. Its on the up and up and the education system is A one.