Updated July 2017 – Cranleigh Abu Dhabi second ADEC Inspection and launch of Sixth Form

One of very few WhichSchoolAdvisor.com “Good Schools” (its highest award), and an ADEC A2 Very Good, High Performing School with Outstanding [...]

““The Sheikh Zayed Academy is one of the most exclusive and prestigious schools in the region.” Sunny Varkey. Chairman. GEMS Education

Updated November 2016

The Sheikh Zayed Private Academy for Girls, established in 2000, is the [...]

Updated July 2017 – Merryland International School Abu Dhabi Fees, context and Inspection

“At Merryland, we celebrate the wedding of traditional forms of education with white hot technology. But we do this bearing in mind the universal [...]

Updated July 2017 – Reach British School new ADEC rating and launch of IGCSE provision

Reach British School is a new (2014) all through FS to Year 10 (equivalent) English National Curriculum school offering phased launch provision [...]

Sunrise Private English School presents us with many difficulties in making sense of its offer. There is no question, in terms of the school’s exceptionally affordable fee structure, that it represents good value for money. It is also classified, in [...]

Established by Presidential Decree, and owned by the Ministry of Presidential Affairs (MOPA), so much is expected of Emirates National School (ENS). Given the brand, cache, stamp of the President, and significant investment, one would expect the [...]

Al Ain International School is quite extraordinary: It is an exceptionally good school by any standards, but it achieves this in ways that you have to experience to really appreciate just what has been achieved for children – and what they achieve [...]

Updated July 2017 – Raha International School examination results

Updated January 2017

As of May 2016, Raha International School [RIS] is one of just three schools in Abu Dhabi to have achieved the “Band A. High Performing. [...]

Updated June 2017

Repton School Abu Dhabi [RSAD] is located within Sorouh Real Estate’s residential and business community development, Shams Abu Dhabi, and is the first school to be built on Reem Island.

This review reflects only the [...]

Updated December 2016

The Philippine Global School [PGS] opened in September 2015, taking over the buildings, many staff and students of the 21st Century Academy School which was placed in special measures and closed by ADEC. The school offers [...]

Updated July 2017 – British International School Abu Dhabi revised fee structure and IB results

“The British International School Abu Dhabi is an environment that nurtures confidence in young people, helping them to reach great success [...]

Updated July 2017 – American Community School of Abu Dhabi fees, context and awarding of SchoolsCompared.Com Top 25 Schools Award for the Best Schools in Dubai and Abu Dhabi 2017 

The American Community School of Abu Dhabi [ACS] is a [...]

Updated December 2016

The German International School of Abu Dhabi [GISAD] was founded as “The German School Abu Dhabi” in 1976 by the STRABAG company.  The school started with just 16 students and 3 teachers. The school grew to educate 70 [...]

Updated December 2016

The Global Indian International School, Abu Dhabi [GIISAD] campus is the first school opened by the Singapore-based not-for-profit Global Schools Foundation [GSF] in the Emirate. Extraordinarily, the school was completely [...]

Updated December 2016

West Yas School, situated, perhaps unsurprisingly, in Yas West, will be the first to adopt the American curriculum in the Aldar Academies network when it opens in September 2016. It will be the second major school to open [...]

Updated December 2016

Al Mamoura School is an intrinsic part of ADEC’s Future Schools Programme, the ambitious project to build 100 world class schools by 2020 to transform education in the Emirate.

Al Mamoura seeks to set the benchmark [...]

GEMS Education claim United Indian School [UIS] will be “the finest CBSE curriculum school in Abu Dhabi”. This is no small claim for a new school in the emirate with an (at capacity population) of close to 4,000 students.

Tracing its [...]

Updated December 2016

Established as the Glenelg School by the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) in 2010, in 2016-17 the school is undergoing significant, and positive change.

Originally visited by our sister [...]