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Gravitas wrote:

UCSI - the staff are higher qualified than many schools. This school was the choice of an expat teacher.. So take a look and visit to make your own mind up.  Unfortunately there is some snobbery about schools, which hides the true gems.

It doesn't have qualified teachers - that is a fact not snobbery.

Yet parents pay high fees that could easily pay for qualified teachers. Fact is the owner will take a 80% profit margin

garshen wrote:

Dear Parents,

Any comments on ELC Cyberjaya.
Base on my visit to the school, its have the required facility for kids,
There are more local kids then others.
The teachers mostly from asian countries with experience teaching in overseas.
They follow  british curriculum , until Secondary 11.
They will test the student using the paper set by cambridge (i believe the uni).

They do have IT class to teach kids on computers (Basic), but no requirement for students to own laptop/mac.

Fees, lowest among schools which ranked good.

Strange analysis! I like ELC and for budget expats worth a look.

Advantages
- selective academically with small class sizes = good results
- dedicated head
- students come out with good attitude

Disadvantages
- doesn't make much money so no re-investment in facilities = bad facilities
- lower pay = less able teachers (but they still have good ones but lose them to other schools a growing trend now with more competition)
- no sixth form

Cambridge checkpoint is NOT UK syllabus. Many schools (far worse in India and China) make a big thing of CIE but so what. They are a money making exam board. It means nothing as such. IGCSE is OK. It's A levels are from the stone age and best avoided.

teal13 wrote:

All the private and international schools are expensive compare to the state schools, these are not the non profit organisation.

There are almost 99 international schools in Malaysia.

My kid with Eaton since she is 2.5 years old from kindergarten period till now she is in primary, if the school don't perform the quality and proven academic results, I'm sure no parents like to get "ripped off" since there are many different new schools such as Tanarata, HELP, Rafflesia,  IGB etc.

Of those 99. 90 are ripping off parents! An all expat teacher school, with high quality education should be no more than 15k a year/20k for IGCSE. That is allowing for a 20% profit margin and reasonable facilities. Profit margins in Malaysia are 70-80% ie 20-30% of what you pay goes on child's education. The rest is pure rip off profit.

Noticed it in other industries. In Malaysia service industries often massively overcharge - 80% profit margins are normal. In the west competition forces more reasonable margins. Microsoft make 60% contribution margin but before R&D and advertising costs. That is considered high though. In Malaysia inefficiency runs rampant - well will last until the oil money runs out - then Malaysia needs to wake up and kill inefficiency (strongly linked to corruption and poor consumer awareness).