Top Schools in the UAE – The SchoolsCompared.com Awards Official Shortlist 2019
As we build up to the Judges’ verdict, to be announced at a glittering event at the Rajmahal Theatre Dubai on March 7th 2019, today we publish our shortlist of the very best schools in the UAE in the running for the top awards.
Over the last six months, in what must be one of the biggest shortlisting exercises of its kind undertaken in the UAE, we have finally arrived at our shortlist of schools in the running for this year’s Top School Awards.
The Awards recognise the schools that have made the biggest impact with parents, students and our readers over the year, schools which have scored exceptionally on our visits – and those schools that have achieved highly, where applicable, with government school inspectorates.
These schools will now be considered in a final stage by an independent judging panel. Their decision, to decide the top 5-6 schools in each category, and then the eventual winner in each category, will be revealed at a glittering event to be held on March 7th 2019 at the Rajmahal Theatre hosted by Dubai Parks and Resorts.
This is what we believe that you can take from this shortlist of our view of the very best performing schools in the UAE.
First, all of the shortlisted schools featured in the following categories, we believe, have something very special to offer the right child. In one or more ways each of the following schools offers something exceptional and innovative.
We believe that every school featured here lights the imagination – and reaches for the stars.
Second, evident in all our schools is a fundamental care for children, a rejection of a blind focus purely on exam statistics and a recognition of the whole child. The focus of all our schools in each category is to see the child as an individual with his or her own gifts, potential, ambition and needs. In subject area awards this means schools will have gone above and beyond to help each child be the very best that they can be.
Third, you can expect some surprises here too: in key ways a number of the schools featured here re-write the rule book on many of the assumptions that have underpinned education in the Emirates for many years. This is, not least, because of the genuinely extraordinary transformation of education here in recent years, and it must be said that both ADEK and the KHDA, in particular, have played an instrumental role in this story. There are many schools in Dubai and Abu Dhabi today that compete on a world stage.
Finally, whilst no single school will ever be perfect for every child, the Top School Awards in the UAE 2019 has been designed to enable you, as parents, to draw up a shortlist of schools from which, through visits to schools, it will become much easier to find for the best education for your child(ren).
The Awards Shortlists