Renewing Or Starting A Thai Course At A Thai Language School

[macanello]

Hi all.

Just a quick note to tell you about my experience this morning when I signed up for the third year of my Thai course.

I was very surprised to find out that my school has decided to take the Thai route where business is concerned as they have now changed their policy of flexibility and raised the fees by 6600 Baht. Let me explain.

I signed up for a Thai course with a 1 year Ed visa in 2011. The policy of the school at that time was to let the student study when he or she wanted. Classes are offered in the mornings, evenings and weekends which is absolutely brilliant. Original cost of the course was 30000Baht.

Last year I signed up once again but the price had gone up to 34000. However I got a discount of 10 percent (loyalty bonus), so I paid 31000 Baht. Flexibility in learning was 100 percent. I could study when I wanted morning, evening or at the weekend. I was happy.

This morning I went to sign up for my final year but was surprised to find the school has chaged its policy of 100 flexibility. The Thai course is still very flexible but now that comes at a price.

The price of the 1 year course is now 34000 but you must stipulate when you want to study and are restricted to that segment (either evening weekend or mornings). If you would like to study at any time then each segment is 3300 Baht so if you want to be totally flexible, the cost would be 34000 plus 6600 = 40600 Baht

I feel that as a returning customer, the management should let me have 100 percent flexibility as I have had the previous two years.

What do you think?

[rgs2001uk]

You as a customer have the right to take your business elsewhere to another school more in tune with your educational needs.

After 2 years of study at a school, what else is there for them to teach you?

Most of these schools are modular, most modules can be completed in less than one year, lets call it a year for those who choose to repeat certain modules.

The school has to think about teacher placement and staff/student ratios, maybe even recruit extra teachers.

I would say, dont bite the hand that feeds.