Search for top schools in Dubai and you’ll get the same recycled list: JESS, Kings, Dubai College, GEMS Wellington. All excellent. All either full, selective, or priced like a...
Every parent searching for good schools in Dubai runs into the same problem: there are over 200 private schools here, and every single one of them claims to be...
If you’re comparing schools in Oud Metha, you’re looking at one of the oldest and busiest school districts in Dubai. Some of the schools here opened before Sheikh Zayed...
Over a hundred schools in Dubai teach the British curriculum. It’s the most popular system in the city by a distance, and if you stand outside any of them...
Bur Dubai doesn’t get written about much in the school guides. The glossy education websites are too busy covering Dubai Hills and Tilal Al Ghaf, places where every second...
Let’s start with a number nobody says out loud at dinner parties. Some schools in Dubai charge over AED 90,000 a year. For one child. If you have three...
Search “best schools in Dubai” and you’ll drown in ranked lists, each one certain it has the answer. Open three of them in tabs and you’ll spot the problem...
British is the most common school system in Dubai, and for good reason. It’s structured, it’s respected pretty much everywhere, and it travels. A kid who sits their GCSEs...
We picked our first school in Dubai off a list. Good KHDA rating, nice photos, a name people recognised at dinner parties. By October my daughter was getting carsick...
Moving to Dubai with kids is a lot. You’re sorting the visa, the apartment, the bank account, the car — and somewhere in the middle of all that you’re...