65% Price Hike Hits Addis Ababa’s Private Schools

In a shock move, Addis Ababa’s education cabinet has cleared the way for private schools to add up to 65% to their tuition fees for the 2018 school year. In practice, only one school was approved to go that high. Under regulation No. 194/2017, up to 1,227 of the city’s 1,585 licensed private schools can apply the full increase, but many schools urged the hikes to be 75% and above due to inflation. With just 10% having initially proposed 50%, the rest are pushing far beyond the official cap, blaming inflation and rising costs.

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