Dubai Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA) announced that the 12th cycle of school inspection will begin in early October, targeting 189 private schools in the emirate, with 289,000 students studying.

This came during an open day organized by the Authority, recently, under the slogan «Listen to you», at its headquarters in Dubai Academic City, and attended by more than 146 school leaders, in the presence of the Chairman of the Board of Directors and Director General of the Authority, Dr. Abdullah Karam, and the Executive Director of the school inspection Dubai, Fatima Balahif.

Al Karam stressed that school leaders and teachers are the ambassadors of positive change and its industry in society, through the promotion of positive relations, highlighting the meanings of love and expressing gratitude to others, which contributes to improve the quality of educational services provided to students, pointing out that «the quality of education is a central element in determining the choices Students with their children's schools.

The results of the last school inspection confirm that 70% of students in private schools receive education in the category of good or better, compared to only 30% in 2008-2009, and applies to Emirati students who are educated in private schools in Dubai.

Participants were briefed on the most important updates in school inspections of the new cycle, including reducing the time period for notifying schools of the date of implementation of school inspection in each school to only five working days before the date of the visit.

During the current session, the inspection teams will carry out one-day “quality continuity follow-up” visits in each private school that has achieved overall “excellent” or “very good” performance in the last cycle of school inspection 2018-2019 to verify that schools It continues to provide high-quality educational services to its students and has implemented the recommendations of the school inspection in its previous report.

Full school inspections will continue to apply to private schools whose overall performance has been assessed as 'good', 'acceptable' or 'weak' in the last cycle of 2018-2019, including new private schools entering their third year After its opening, which will be subject for the first time to full school inspections.

For her part, Fatima Balraheef said: “The 12th edition of the school inspection works is implementing a package of updates in its operations based on feedback from private schools and parents of students, to meet their aspirations and needs, and keep pace with the future goals of school inspection.” The educational community, by encouraging educational institutions to reduce the rates of paper use in the school community in general, and during the implementation of school inspections in particular, in line with the future goals of the Emirate of Dubai within the «Dubai Sustainability Policy», which will His work with the private schools in Dubai towards the implementation of the initiative «school censorship without papers.»

She explained that the updates, based on feedback from private schools and students, aimed at strengthening the structure of school inspection in Dubai in line with the national agenda of the State and future goals of the Emirate of Dubai, pointing out to continue to work during the current cycle of school inspection, on four main axes, are: The quality of education received by Emirati students in private schools, the most prominent aspects of concentration, graduation qualifications, and the implementation of school inspections without papers in line with the Dubai Sustainability Policy.

New Schools

Updates of the current cycle of school inspection focus on introductory visits to new private schools during the three school years after their inauguration, with a view to enhancing schools' understanding of school inspections, providing guidance and guidance to prepare them for the implementation of school inspections, and meeting their commitments to deliver high quality performance. .

4 axes of school supervision during the current session

■ Quality of education of Emirati students in private schools.

■ Highlights of focus.

■ Graduation qualifications.

■ Implementation of school checks without papers.