120 Romanians pay up to 80,000 euros a year to send their children to foreign private high schools

At least 500 parents attended a private high school fair organised in Bucharest this weekend, to see the educational offer of 17 private high schools of Great Britain, Switzerland and Germany, where tuition fees go as high as 80,000 euros per year.

"We estimate that around 120 Romanian school children each year leave Romania to study in private foreign schools. For instance, at present 53 children are registered with Swiss high schools and 67 with British ones. Usually, parents study the offers two years before their children reach the high school age," says Svetlan Danev, general manager and co-owner of Bulgaria's Integral group, the organiser of "Europe's Elite High Schools Fair" that took place in Bucharest during last weekend, now at its second edition in Romania. Integral Programe Educaţionale, which organises such fairs in Bulgaria as well, has been present in Romania for three years.
Annually, 5,000 Romanians go abroad to study, according to Education Ministry estimates, but only part of them attend the highest ranking education programmes internationally. Only 200 Romanians last year registered with one of the world's best universities, according to the data centralised by ZF on the basis of information from universities.