家长们又要破财了，因为一些著名私校正逐步大幅提高学费，尽管早前非公立学校已经获得了联邦政府将近280亿元的补助。
澳洲最顶级的私立学校学费平均涨幅将大约在6%，远高于1.26%的通胀率。这些私校表示，所涨学费的5.6%都归结于教师工资的增加。从整体来看，学费涨幅比去年约8%的均值有所减少，另外许多学校还制定了灵活的开支计划。
然而，新州和维州的部分私校仍是将家长逼到了墙脚。许多学校将未支付学费的家长告上法庭，其中一些案件还涉及对家长的破产诉讼。
今年学费涨幅最大的当数昆州的学校，布里斯本女子文法学校（Brisbane Girls’ Grammar）和东布里斯本圣公会文法学校（East Brisbane’s Anglican Church Grammar School）涨了大约8%。布里斯本一家独立的女子学校—— Clayfield College学费上涨7%至12,120元。
新州和柏斯的学校部分学费大涨了7%甚至以上，但维州著名私校的学费涨幅维持在5.5%以下。全澳学费最昂贵的私校——季隆文法学校（Geelong Grammar）学费涨幅为5.5%至27,700元，而墨尔本斯高丘学院（Scotch College）学费上扬4.7%至22, 572元。
在雪梨，Kings School学费涨了5.5%至24,730 元，而Kambala上调7%至26,172元。柏斯著名的私校中，Hale School学费增加8%至17,820元，而 Christ Church Grammar涨7%至18,800元，Guildford Grammar提高6.1%至15,725 元，Presbyterian Ladies College Perth增7%至18,648元。
在南澳，阿德莱德 Scotch College学费涨5.5%，从去年的18,160元增加到19,160元。Pembroke学费增加5.9%至17,280 元，Prince Alfred College上调6%，从15,198涨至16,110元，而St Peters Girls则调高5.9%至 15,750元，Pulteney Grammar的学费增加6%至15,490元。
南澳独立学校联盟（AISSA）的一份调查指出，该州95所独立学校（除天主教学校外）今年的平均学费涨幅为6.3%。
在大涨学费的同时，私校还从联邦政府手中拿到了高额补助款。2008年，陆克文政府实施霍华德时期的2009-12年SES补助模式时，给非公立学校拨款了大约280亿元。根据联邦的数据，这比以往的补助期多了60亿元。此外，根据陆克文政府的经济刺激措施，私校还获得了数百万元的资金。
全国独立学校联盟理事会（NCISA）表示，学校明白经济低迷也家长带来的压力，但是由于教师工资（占学校成本70%）的调涨，学校也只大幅上调学费。
维州独立教育工会（VIEU）秘书长詹姆斯（Deb James）认为，以教师工资增加为由大涨学费根本是“无稽之谈”，多数著名私校的教师工资涨幅仅比公立学校多一丁点。
2008年，维州教师为薪资不断奋战，保住了4%至8%的年工资增幅。各私立学校的薪资涨幅不一，但是起点通常是所在州公立学校最终达成的薪资涨幅。
NCISA执行长丹尼尔（Bill Daniels）称，学校都在尽力将学费保持在低位，对于财务困难的家长也做了灵活处理。澳洲家长协会（APC）执行长道尔顿（Ian Dalton）称，最常接到的投诉是学校在未给家长解释的情况下就强行涨学费。“在目前的经济局势下，许多家长的处境十分困难。在一些家庭中，学费是最大的开销之一，家长们必须确保涨学费是合理的。”
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私校学费都那么高了，怎么还要从政府手里拿钱啊
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看看悉尼SMH的相关报道。http://www.smh.com.au/national/school-fees-hit-record-highs-20091225-lezt.html?skin=text-only
悉尼的私校学费首次最高超过了26000刀一年。
其中，
Newington College in Stanmore 从22170刀上升到23454刀。
Ascham School in Edgecliff 上升1600刀，达到了26200刀。
Kambala in Rose Bay，将达到26172刀。
The King's School in Parramatta，从23442刀增加到24730刀
School fees hit record highs
Date: December 26 2009
Anna Patty EDUCATION EDITOR
PAYMENT plans are being introduced to help parents meet the soaring cost of private schooling as fees pass $26,000 for the first time in Sydney.
Private schools are raising their fees by as much as five times the inflation rate of 1.3 per cent - this despite a 32 per cent increase in federal funding, which will exceed $26 billion over four years.
Newington College in Stanmore is raising its fees from $22,170 to $23,454 next year and offering the new option of paying in nine equal monthly instalments. Previously, parents have been invoiced three times a year.
At Ascham School in Edgecliff, tuition fees will rise by $1600, or 6.5 per cent, to $26,200 next year, after a 7 per cent rise last year. The increase was largely attributed to higher teacher salaries.
Ascham parents were sent a letter with their fees notice that said the school's objective was to keep fees at the ''lowest level consistent with the ability to continue to improve the quality of the education that Ascham offers its students. Fees are set at a level designed to meet our operating expenses for the coming year in all parts of the school.
''At Ascham, we are committed to attracting and retaining the best teachers for your daughters, to keep our pupil-teacher ratio low and to offer students a wide choice of subjects. As a result salaries are the largest component of our operating expenses.''
Kambala in Rose Bay will raise its year 12 fees by about 7 per cent to $26,172 and is asking parents to pay in four instalments.
After the Howard government introduced the federal funding scheme for private schools it said extra funding would put downward pressure on fees. The Rudd Government embraced the scheme, even though it was criticised by an internal Education Department review, which said it had entrenched inequities.
The scheme will pay $2.7 billion in overpayments to schools that are funded above their strict entitlements under the federal formula, which measures a school's need by the socio-economic status of the families who attend.
The Greens NSW MP John Kaye said the latest fee increases had put top private schools further out of reach of most families.
"Far from improving access for low and middle income families, the hundreds of millions of dollars of subsidies going to the wealthiest private schools is pushing them further out of the reach of ordinary families.''
School administrators told the Herald that salary increases for the most experienced teachers will be about 4 per cent next year. The rate of increase will be higher for less experienced teachers.
Geoff Newcombe, executive director of the Association of Independent Schools NSW, said fees would increase in the state by an average of 4 to 5.5 per cent.
He said teacher salaries made up 70 per cent of a school's spending, and increases had been locked in for next year under industrial agreements.
Dr Newcombe said some schools allowed some parents to pay off fees without interest after their children had left the school, while others had introduced payments on an instalment basis.
The King's School in Parramatta, which will raise its fees from $23,442 to $24,730, offers parents an option of paying in 10 instalments. The headmaster, Tim Hawkes, said the 5.5 per cent fee increase was ''standard'' and driven by increases in teacher salaries.
''This is not about CPI, it is about the education index, and that is driven by what has been agreed to under enterprise agreements,'' Dr Hawkes said.
Rod Kefford, the headmaster of Barker College, which will increase its fees by 5.5 per cent, said the school was conscious of the effect increases had on family budgets, especially during the global financial crisis.
He said the school council was responsible for ''wise stewardship and careful management of the school's resources'', and ''hopefully we have taken responsible approach to enable us to cover the costs of running the school''.
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[ 本帖最后由 patrickzhu 于 2010-1-5 16:46 编辑 ]
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这样好，根本不用纠结了
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纠结的更厉害了
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学费基本上年年会涨的.
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私校就是这样，一手从政府拿钱，一手从家长那里收钱。
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拿全奖的小朋友们又涨工资了。恭喜啊。
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嗨~~行行都一样，虽然每年都做同样的工作，可是谁不想pay rise呢？Forum里面不是有一个帖子说涨工资幅度嘛，有人每年涨10%都不满意...老师也是人，校长也是人啊...
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