New international school aims to cut fees by 40%

Singapore

FORTY per cent cheaper.

That is what new international school One World International School (OWIS) promises to charge in fees when it opens in January.

And the pooling of assets held by the Global Indian International School (GIIS) group has allowed OWIS to provide quality international school education at more affordable fees and keep its overheads low, its head of the school Gregor Polson told The Business Times.

Annual school fees for its kindergarten and primary school pupils will start from S$17,000 and will not exceed S$20,000 for the higher grade levels. This is about 40 per cent lower than the average fees at top-end international schools here.

"We will be relying heavily on Rohit (Ambekar) and GIIS, and will not be recruiting so many staff in order to …