Dear Current and Potential Students:
Two years have passed since I last changed prices, and in accordance with my tradition, I am changing them now. As an experiment, I am implementing the following system for the next six months...
1. All classes are now KZT 15 000 per month.
a) For simplicity, all classes, regardless of time, are now the same price.
The exception is “Mini-classes”, which have fewer class hours (KZT 10 000).
Additionally, individual and mini-groups remain the same (see the Price List).
Students within their existing two-year period at a lower rate still maintain that price.
b) I want more middle-class students to have the opportunity to prepare with a native speaker.
I am hoping that this will allow more lower-middle class working adults to take advantage of my classes.
I realize that my students, or their parents, work very hard for their salaries, and appreciate that even KZT 15 000 is a large amount of money in a city with a median income of only around KZT 75 000.
c) The school does fine financially. After all, there is no bureaucratic administration to pay, no absentee owner to take all the money, and predictable expenses.
The exception is that most authoritarian of bosses, my daughter Bella, whose Meloman video and toy habit I must pay for.
2. No altering payment dates.
a) There are two exceptions: scheduled holiday/vacation time and long-term sickness.
Please warn me of holidays before you leave.
Please call me to inform me of any serious sickness.
b) All other missed classes must be made up in another class when the student has free time.
c) Remember that I provide a lot more time than the industry average of 4.5 hours per week, so coming to only two classes per week makes any student full-time.
3. Makeup classes.
a) As mentioned above, students can make up classes they have missed due to school or work on their own time.
b) English Club and any open-classes (see English Clubs), are also considered to be times at which students can make up missed time.
All of this information will be on the official website, http//:www.brycecombs.com, and will be included into the new version of the Standard Agreement. For now, all students are considered to have accepted these changes based on this public notification.
Thank you,
Bryce Combs