Dubai Modern High and The Indian High School are rated ‘outstanding’ for the academic year 2012/2013
Through its official Twitter account KHDA, the Knowledge and Human Development Authority in Dubai responsible for regulating private schools, announced the following:
Two Indian curriculum schools are rated ‘outstanding’ for 2012/2013 – Dubai Modern High and The Indian High School.
— KHDA (@KHDA) January 28, 2013
It seems there is a progress in the performance of Indian private schools, as until now mostly English and American-curriculum schools were rated “outstanding by the private education regulator.
A number of students at Indian curriculum schools in Dubai as KHDA also twitted the following:
#Dubai perform higher than average in international assessments such as TIMSS and PIRLS.
— KHDA (@KHDA) January 28, 2013
Read more: Dubai students’ TIMSS score still below international average
The Dubai School Inspection Bureau (DSIB) of KHDA was established by Decision 38 of The Executive Council of the Government of Dubai in 2007 with the aim to provide comprehensive information on the standard of private school education in Dubai. This is achieved through a number of approaches, including annual school inspections, parents meetings and focus groups, teachers, parents and students surveys.
Having a view of the standard and quality of education provided throughout Dubai is critical for everyone concerned with education. DSIB provides an inspection service which gives independent, comprehensive assessment of educational standards and school performance for every private school in Dubai.
During the past two years, many parents have complained about schools using certain practices to mislead the inspectors. The school inspections are not unannounced, but schools are informed few weeks in advance about the coming check -up. Parents in Dubai are burdened by unjustified high cost of education and reached to a number of official media outlets with various, sometime funny or even hard to imagine complaints.
On the other hand, schools are given the opportunity to increase their demanded tuition fees and in respect their profits if their inspection results improve. So, motivated by the opportunity for better financial gains, it is very much possible schools to use whatever practices in order to impress the inspectors.
