By Daniel Mills An Australian entrepreneur is revolutionising the cost of private education for parents by offering last-minute discounts for their child's education. In a world-first, 25-year-old Jeremy Wein has partnered with a number of Australia's leading independent schools to offer parents between 10 and 40 per cent off the price of their child's enrollment via School Places. The idea, similar to travel website Wotif.com, came to Wein who wanted to apply the ease of the travel website to the complexity and expense of private school placements. Scroll down for video Xavier College, a boarding school in Melbourne, has signed up with the School Places website offering parents reduced costs for their child
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The website offers discounts between 10 and 40 per cent on annual fees
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Parents can 'claim' a place on School Places at the last-minute if an availability matches their search
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Availabilities are offered from preschool to year 12 in NSW and Victoria
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It works similar to travel site Wotif.com by removing the hassle of finding a private school placement
@placeholder and Victorian schools which have registered pay a commission to the site when a vacancy becomes available 'similar to what a travel agent might charge you for booking a holiday,' Ms Mactier said.