Best School for Technical Education – The Finalists 2023 – 2024
(including the International Baccalaureate Career-related Programme and/or BTEC)
– The Shortlist 2023 – 2024
The following are our top-5 schools and Finalists for the 2023-2024 SchoolsCompared.com Best School for Technical Education in their UAE for their very significant investment in often very expensive technical programmes to ensure that every child has a choice of academic and technical stream qualification pathways in their educational journeys.
A commitment to technical education and breadth of technical subject provision is a key measure of a school’s genuine commitment to meeting the needs, potential and ambition of all children. When a child joins a school, how can anyone possibly know whether they will be accomplished academically, or technically. How can we know, from a child, at a young age, where their potential, talents and career aspirations will be?
Surely we cannot know…
How many schools offer provision in Engineering for young men and women, despite Engineering being the lifeblood of industry. How many offer technical programmes in Tourism, Hospitality, Technology, Sport, Aeronautics, Aviation, Business, Entrepreneurship, Motorsport – or any other of the more than 2000 qualifications available for students across 20 plus key sectors of business and industry? And how many schools offer breadth of those technical stream options?
The truth is that, even today, you do not find the same breadth of technical stream options available to students as their academic counterparts. This is true in both British and International Baccalaureate curriculum schools, both pioneers in this critical qualification pathway.
Schools with technical stream options celebrate inclusion – and opportunity. Many believe these technically equipped schools are the real life blood of entrepreneurship – uniquely providing students with the gifts to make and create the world, rather than simply reading about it.
Providing students with a technical education, including BTEC and the International Baccalaureate Career-related programme, is expensive for schools. It requires, in some cases, the same sort of investment you would need in setting up a manufacturing facility in industry. Schools that invest here, we believe, should be celebrated as pioneers – and recognised for their commitment to all children.
All the schools listed here too, in different ways, provide outstanding breadth of academic, technical and ECA options for students to ensure that every child can meet his or her individual ambitions, potential, and ability.
Each of them endeavours to provide added value to each child’s journey to ensure that every student leaves school meeting or exceeding baseline academic and whole child expectations.
When we have looked at schools, we have weighted those that plough back investment into facilities, teacher salaries, resources and school improvements year-on-year to improve education for children.
All of the schools shortlisted endeavour to deliver a benchmark for the best technical education for children available in the UAE.
Finally, we have looked across all areas of provision, investment, innovation and achievement that support each school being shortlisted.
You can read what we are looking for in an outstanding school for Technical Stream education here.
Our Top 5 Finalists
The Top Schools Awards 2023 – 2024
Best Technical and Vocational
Cranleigh Abu Dhabi – review here and here
Dubai English Speaking College – review here, and here
GEMS International School Al Khail – review here, here and here
Safa Community School – review here and here
The British School Al Khubairat – review here and here
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