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Thank you for returning to the Australian School of Cairo homepage for an update and welcome if you are a first time visitor.
Our
school began as a modest notion in Australia in 2007. The notion was to
start small with perhaps 200 preschool and lower primary students in a
villa or other suitable rental, opening somewhere in Greater Cairo in
September of 2009. Upon
returning to Cairo in April of 2008, months of searching and learning
more of Egyptian school licensing requirements resulted in 1) no
suitable premises being identified in Cairo's heady real estate market,
and 2) learning that villas and other buildings that might seem
suitable can fail Egyptian licensing requirements in many instances due
to one inadequacy or another. Work
through the second half of 2008 was focused on costing purpose-built
construction but through that time investor confidence fell almost
daily and high-tuition international schools are, perhaps, the most
difficult for which to predict financial outcomes in the current
worried economic times. As
a practical matter, it is too late to begin construction for September
2009 and it is about this time of year that publicity for parents and
teachers must be clear with finalised plans. So we can neither build
fast enough if we were to have that option nor announce the school's
opening soon enough if a suitable rental became available April or
later. Thus we now envisage opening a school in Cairo no sooner than
September 2010.
Australian
education is "tied for
second". Only Finland has been shown to produce better results. This
speaks well for Australian teachers and curricula and we look forward bringing both to Egypt. We
hear frequently from people in Cairo curious about our plans as well as
from families moving to Cairo who wish to locate their students in an
Australian school because they are in one now (Middle East, South Asia,
East and South East Asia or Australia itself) so we are content that
our notion that our Australian School of Cairo will be well received.
We
look forward to
hearing from you! We are
happy to meet with parents at their convenience.
Jeff
Marck PhD (Linguistics, Australian National University)
Managing Director
+2-0168-407-394
welcome@australianschoolcairo.org
+2-02-3385-5350 messages
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