The Education and Knowledge Department announced that it has allocated four vacant school buildings in Abu Dhabi to serve as private schools by investors to support the initiative of the Abu Dhabi Government «Tomorrow 21», which aims to increase the capacity of high quality schools, appropriate tuition fees and provide quality education at a reasonable cost. .
In addition, the Department assured Emirates Al-Youm to set the criteria for renting vacant school buildings, according to the results of the comprehensive master plan for private schools, which shows the quality of the private schools required in each region in terms of curriculum, tuition fees and target group of students. Lease of vacant school buildings, signed with private school investors who will lease them, and contains the conditions, duties and responsibilities of both parties.
She explained that the selection of beneficiary schools in vacant school buildings is based on the need for work. The buildings are either offered in tenders to existing schools that have achieved a good level in the inspection reports of the Education and Knowledge Department or through direct allocation.
She pointed out that it is important that the applicant to run schools has a record of outstanding achievements in the management and operation of private schools. The previous experience in the management and operation of private schools is an important factor in the process of selecting the final list of applicants. Education and quality of education, which is a top priority for the Council.
The department focused on three priorities, including quality in academic outputs, in order to improve the quality of education by academic outputs in various private schools, by focusing on student performance and effectiveness of teaching methods and school leadership, while the second priority focuses on providing education opportunities at a fee accessible to all. By ensuring adequate absorptive capacity, providing quality educational options for all students, accessible to all, in addition to the third priority for non-academic outputs and national identity, aimed at improving the quality of education with non-academic outputs Yeh for the development of students in the personal and social aspects, in addition to strengthening national identity and the qualities of the ideal citizen.
According to statistics released by the Department of Education and Knowledge, the coming period will see the opening of 20 new private schools to meet the increasing demand for seats, with the annual growth rate of students in private education 5%, noting that the number of students is expected to reach 280 thousand students by By 2020.
She pointed out that the new schools expected to open include six schools with very high fees "more than 50 thousand dirhams a year," five schools high fees "from 30 to 50 thousand dirhams," and one school fee of medium «from 20 to 30 thousand dirhams», and seven Schools with low fees "from 10 to 20 thousand dirhams", and one school fees very low «less than 10 thousand dirhams».
198 schools
The Department of Education and Knowledge reported that private schools in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi witnessed a balanced growth in terms of increasing the capacity of schools and the number of enrolled students, noting that the number of 198 schools distributed across Abu Dhabi, Al Ain and Al Dhafra serves about 253 thousand students, equivalent to 65% Students in the emirate, pointing out that the private schools in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi follow 14 different curricula.
The Department pointed out that 73% of private school students are residents, 27% of whom are citizens, pointing out that 28% of schools offer American curriculum, 23% offer British curriculum, 19% curriculum of Ministry of Education, 18% offer Indian curriculum, 5% progress Sabia curriculum, and 7% other curricula. The curriculum of the Ministry of Education and the American, British and Indian curriculum attracts about 88% of private school students.