Updated July 2017 – Safa Community School Visit and Inspection

New sister school to the Safa (British) School in Al Quoz, and originally named the Safa British Academy, Safa Community School is an all through British School currently [...]

Updated July 2017 – Jumeirah College 2017-18 fees and Sixth Form

“Our students’ success cannot be defined by qualifications alone.” Simon O’Connor, Principal and CEO – Jumeirah College

GEMS Jumeirah [...]

Updated July 2017 – Dubai English Speaking College school expansion

“My role is to be an advocate for every parent’s interests from the age of 3 to 18.”

Andrew Gibbs. Joint Principal, Dubai English Speaking School and [...]

Dubai Heights Academy – June 2017 Hard Hat Tour

Dubai Heights Academy (DHA) is a new British curriculum AED159M school opening on a 2,800,000 Square foot site in Al Barsha in September 2017, map below.

DHA has published [...]

GEMS Founders Mizhar is a new all-through British school which will launch in September 2018 and, after a phased opening, will offer an all-through education for children from FS through to IGCSE and A’Level. The school is being built ground-up [...]

GEMS Vertus is a new British, English National Curriculum school in planning phase. The school will launch in September 2018 in Al Waha, Dubailand and will offer a pure, all-through UK curriculum and Sixth Form from EYFS to IGCSE and A’ Level. Map [...]

Newlands School is a new UK curriculum school launching in the Al Warqa area in September 2017. Conveniently located for families living in both the northern residential areas of Dubai as well as those in Sharjah and beyond, the school [...]

Updated June 2017 – EXCLUSIVE SCHOOLSCOMPARED FIRST LOOK

“It is my great pleasure to write a few words by way of introduction to Arbor.

Arbor shall be an exciting, dynamic and forward thinking school that prepares young [...]

“Brighton’s reputation is built upon offering its pupils an innovative curriculum and outstanding pastoral care in their pursuit of academic excellence, all underpinned by a passionate belief in the importance of the individual.

Every child in [...]

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 November 2016

The International School of Creative Science [ISCS] is a new Arabic-American dual curriculum faith school launching Phase 1 of its provision in Nad Al Sheba 3. The school is situated in the prime education corridor [...]

Updated March 2017

“As Principal and a parent of 3 children at the school, I value DBS as a happy school above all else, made up of happy people – happy to be respected, valued, and appreciated. We give every child the opportunity to [...]

Updated July 2017 – Kings’ School Al Barsha First KHDA Inspection and Sixth Form A Level breadth of provsion

Kings’ Education in the UAE comprises three schools:

Kings’ Dubai [KD]: the KHDA Outstanding founding FS1 to Year 6 [...]

Smart Vision School is located in the heart of Al Barsha 2 – and, as a new school, Vision stands out for being a school that actually exists in nearly complete form. Prospective parents can actually visit the school – and not have to depend on off- [...]

Updated January 2017

GEMS Founders School(GFS) was established as an international UK curriculum school in September 2016, promising a “reasonably priced world-class education” meeting “the high standard of education that GEMS [...]

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 [...]

Updated November 2016

GEMS FirstPoint is a very interesting school in a multitude of areas – and it is also, importantly, a very good one. So what sets it apart. There are two defining features that standout and which we believe will be of [...]

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 [...]

What a wonderful, extraordinary school. It is a rare thing to be able to be so positive about a school that many parents will simply not have heard of, this partly because it (confusingly) shares a name with another very different GEMS school, GEMS [...]