Tag: schools

How do you know which school is right for your child? We shed some light on factors to help you understand what matters the most when it comes to education this year. The UAE education guide 2018 will give you an overview of the newly revamped educational model, list of...

The essence of childhood has changed over the last decade. Not so long ago, childhood meant playfulness, innocence and beatification. Today it is all about added pressure, extra tuition, music classes, tennis classes, after school extracurricular activities and competitiveness to be better than the rest. How much can a young...

Schools all around the world rant about the importance of grading systems within the education in founding the next generation of leaders and pioneers, yet the word “education” is still widely misunderstood, or more accurately, the concept behind it misrepresented. Is fighting anxiety over long, sleepless nights to meet...

Teachers can comfortably take history classes to the forefront of academic syllabus in schools after the inauguration of the long-awaited Louvre museum in Abu Dhabi. To be proud of one’s culture doesn’t essentially mean to know one’s roots. Not everyone is aware of their or others cultural heritage, feel a...

They say that the biggest of surprises can come from the smallest packages. And this is exactly what elementary school, Arcadia Preparatory, in Dubai is trying to harness from its little students. A ‘Junior MBA’ program is being offered at The Arcadia Preparatory School for children as young as six-years...

Schools across the United Arab Emirates are set to follow a new common education system starting 2018, in the wake of a decision announced by the Ministry of Education and Abu Dhabi Education Council (ADEC). Both private and public schools which follow the government curriculum will have to adopt the...

While being a student can be fun – for many people, it’s a chance to be independent before they have to grow up and face the responsibilities of being an adult and having a job – it can be very easy to have too much fun. It’s often the...

Educational fairs bring hundreds of universities and students together across the country. Many students think they are useless and don’t take advantage of the university fairs and open days their schools organize. It’s not because they don’t want to, but rather because they don’t know how to or its...

Many students leave for college with the misbelief that it would be pretty much the same as their high school with more advanced courses. The frustration on their first day in college and feelings of being lost become unavoidable and the kickoff is never as smooth as they wish. The...

Word of mouth is probably the oldest form of communication known to humankind. Ancient man used to draw on cave walls to let other people know what kind of monsters he fought. Nowadays, technological advancement has increased and simplified the way we do things. Incorporating positive recommendations through word...