"He has increased school fees for one school in Dubai by 90% in this time of economic recession and actually informed the parent s in JAnuary after admissions to all other non GEMs Indian schools were closed . He owns 26 schools in UAE , and most of the indian curriculum schools in UAE. I would like to put across to anybody – Please do not join GEMs schools without enough research – it is a money making business. Maybe he should have got award for business and not for promoting edcuation!!!!!"Source:
"Sunny Varkey is a suited version of a THUG.
Education seems to be the biggest money making racket, and GEMS has the extortion act worked out to a pure science.
One of the very reasons why despite being in a GEMS school for her primary years, I took my daughter out of Cambridge High School. I refuse to advocate extortion. The fact of the matter is, when big boys play they know where and when to use the WD 40."
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Letter to Sunny Varkey - will this happen to Bolitho?
"Parents of hundreds of students studying in an Indian school in Dubai have been protesting the "unjustified" and whopping increase of 90 per cent in the institution fee.
The Dubai Modern High School, run by Padma Shree Sunny Varkey's GEMS Education, is in the eye of the storm for hiking fees by 90 per cent leading to parents gathering in droves outside the premises protesting the "unjustified" hike.
"Since it is an ICSE school, it has a sort of a monopoly and parents have no choice," said Shahid Ahmed, an Indian national whose two children have been studying at the school.
On Wednesday morning, hundreds of parents gathered outside the school to protest the decision to hike fees but the management refused to meet them.
Instead parents have been told that they can fill out a concession form which "might" be considered by the management."
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Read this warning story from The Times:
"THE company that promised to introduce “no frills” private education to England is facing a revolt from parents at the first school that it took over.
Parents of pupils at Bury Lawn school in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, passed a vote of no confidence in Global Enterprise Management Systems (Gems) after the departure of four headteachers within a year.
Hundreds of parents complaining of an “atmosphere of fear” and a collapse in morale will present Gems today with an ultimatum to hand control of Bury Lawn back to the headteacher and demand that they have a say in hiring staff.
Before the action plan had even been submitted, however, parents had received a letter from the company’s lawyers warning them that a meeting on school grounds “without consent is totally irresponsible and will not be tolerated”.
Gems promises “no frills” private education at low prices and with 13 schools is the second largest provider of independent education in the country. Sunny Varkey, the Indian-born chairman, who runs the schools “for profit”, said he aimed to manage 200 schools and has been in talks about investing in two city academies."
What does GEMS say?
"GEMS believes that parents are an integral part of the school community. GEMS’ parent relations programme supports the positive interaction between school and home, encouraging parents to participate in the education process."
"But doubts remain about whether the Gems model can work. The average independent day school charges £7,287 a year, significantly more than the £5,000 budget schools. Independent schools' biggest cost is staff; how will the promised economies of scale result in genuinely lower fees when the schools still have to provide well-qualified staff?
"I think there is a great deal of scepticism about how it will work in practice," says Dick Davison, a spokesman for the Independent Schools Council. "In many senses their premium schools are not that different from the way a lot of schools are now. But I think there's a lot of interest in how they succeed at the bottom end."
There seems to be little that is radically different about Gems' schools educationally. But Martin Stephen, High Master of St Paul's School, the London boys' school that topped the independent school GCSE league tables this summer, objects to schools being run for profit, as the Gems schools are. "I would rather that all fees be ploughed back into the school," he says. "That's been the success of the independent sector in the UK, which is essentially non-profit-making. If Gems could change the nature of the game, good luck to them."
"Education of course implies basic amenities, everywhere, but definitely it is not amenities that count, but rather, education, itself, for which GEMS and its schools were and are always way behind. But in pickpocketing the parents, there were and are in the forefront."
"In a major blow to Indian parents here, schools run by NRI entrepreneur Sunny Varkey's Global Educational Management Systems (GEMS) have raised transport fees by upto a whopping 240 per cent as the service was outsourced to a private company"
Questions:
What were the bids?
By how much has the Bolitho Business Plan been compromised?
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