Reader subscriptions sustain the editorial work that keeps the index open and useful for schools and families. The annual transfer keeps administrative overhead light.
€22 / year
For individual parents, home-schooling families and curious teachers following the index.
€78 / year
For school education coordinators planning the year's class trips and museum visits.
€220 / year
For school networks, ministry curriculum-development units and museum-education research centres.
Once a subscription is placed through the contact form, Salma Refaat confirms within two working days with the subscription identifier, the bank-transfer instructions (account at Banque du Caire, Minya branch) or PayPal option, and the welcome email. The subscription becomes active when the payment clears. The monthly bulletin arrives on the first Sunday of every month. Three weeks before the end of the subscription year, Salma sends a single courtesy reminder.
The booking consultation is a one-hour written consultation with the lead editor for the relevant age band, intended to help schools plan a programme of museum visits for the academic year. The consultation covers age-band fit, curriculum mapping, museum capacity and recommended booking timing. The standard fee is one hundred and forty euros per consultation; School subscribers receive one free consultation per year, Institutional subscribers receive three.
Annual breakdown: approximately fifty-four percent to editor salaries; thirteen percent to verification travel (the editors visit the twelve museums each quarter); twelve percent to the observer-honorarium pool (EGP 200 per observed-visit report, paid to teachers and parents who file structured reports); ten percent to office costs; six percent to technology infrastructure; five percent to the annual external audit and small consultancy work.
No. The quarterly ratings, the methodology document, the corrections log and the booking-process guide are all free to read. The subscription pays for the monthly bulletin, the early quarterly access, the school-network licence, the booking consultations and the custom-itinerary discount.
Annual transfer keeps administrative work tractable for the small team.
Yes. Individual teachers may subscribe at the Reader tier for €11 (half price) on production of a current school employee identifier. Mark "teacher" on the contact form.
Yes, at a custom price. Two institutions hold extended licences: the Cairo American College school network at twenty-eight readers, and the Egyptian Ministry of Education's curriculum-development unit at twenty-two readers.
The bulletin is digital only. The optional Institutional printed annual digest is the only printed output — three hundred pages consolidating the year's bulletins, the four quarterly indexes, the corrections log and the transparency note.
Yes. Mark "Gift subscription" with the recipient's details and the welcome date.
Salma refunds pro rata to the nearest whole month within ten working days.
The index is a digital publication supplied from Egypt. We do not charge EU VAT and are not registered for collection. Egyptian VAT is included in the displayed price.
The Reader tier has been €22 since 2023 (€16 before). The School tier has been €78 since launch in 2020. The Institutional tier was added in 2021 at €220 and has not changed.
Egyptian residents pay the subscription tiers in Egyptian pounds at the equivalent of half the listed euro amount. The half-price arrangement reflects the cooperative's commitment to keeping the index accessible to Egyptian schools, where the budget pressure on subscription items is real. The Egyptian-resident pricing is funded from the broader subscription pool; the international subscribers effectively subsidise the Egyptian-resident access. The arrangement has been in place since 2019 and is documented in the December transparency note each year. Approximately sixty-five percent of our subscribers are at the Egyptian-resident rate; the remaining thirty-five percent are at the listed euro rates.
A distinctive line in the cooperative's budget is the reader-observer honorarium pool — the EGP 200 paid to teachers and parents who file structured observation reports on programmes they have attended with groups. The pool consumed approximately twelve percent of annual revenue in 2025 and is the cooperative's most direct mechanism for putting subscription revenue back into the network of teachers and families whose observations make the index credible. The honorarium is small per report (about €4 at the current exchange rate) but matters as a recognition of the time and reflective effort the observer puts into the structured note. We expand the honorarium pool each year as the subscriber base grows; the 2026 budget includes a fifteen-percent expansion of the pool to fund the targeted secondary-teacher recruitment described in the 2025 season review.
Annual breakdown: approximately fifty-four percent to editor salaries (five editors and one administrator); thirteen percent to verification travel; twelve percent to the observer-honorarium pool; ten percent to office costs; six percent to technology infrastructure; five percent to the annual external audit and small consultancy work. The breakdown is published in the December transparency note each year.
Since 2019 the cooperative has declined four sponsorship approaches and two larger funding proposals. The four refused sponsorships were all from educational-tour operators wanting an association with the index's editorial brand; we treated the refusals as the practical demonstration of our editorial-independence stance. The two refused funding proposals came from a private school network proposing to fund the index in exchange for priority verification of their visiting plans (we declined because the priority would have compromised the verification framework) and from a museum-equipment supplier proposing to fund the accessibility-audit component in exchange for naming rights (we declined because the supplier's commercial interest in promoting specific accessibility equipment could have biased the audit's findings).
Subscription questions through the contact form.