The brand new campus, Queen Elizabeth’s Faculty in Dubai, will carry over 450 years of British tutorial heritage to the UAE, providing college students entry to the Nationwide Curriculum for England below the identical requirements which have made the Barnet faculty a constant “excellent” performer and a frontrunner in UK schooling.
Developed in partnership with GEDU World Training, the venture just lately acquired preliminary approval from Dubai’s Data and Human Improvement Authority (KHDA), making a historic transfer, as it’s the first UK state grammar faculty to determine a global department.
“This landmark approval permits us to speed up our imaginative and prescient to ship world-leading Ok-12 schooling to college students from throughout the UAE,” mentioned Caroline Pendleton-Nash, CEO of Queen Elizabeth’s World Colleges.
“The Dubai department campus will stay devoted to the mission, ethos, custom, and exacting tutorial requirements of Queen Elizabeth’s Faculty, Barnet, whereas embracing Dubai’s spirit of innovation and ambition,” she mentioned.
She added: “In uniting the heritage of one of many UK’s most distinguished faculties with the imaginative and prescient of Dubai, we aspire to set a brand new international benchmark for academic excellence.”
Opening initially from nursery to yr 8, the Dubai campus will then broaden in phases to incorporate sixth kind. The varsity’s location in Dubai Sports activities Metropolis supplies entry to distinctive athletic services, making certain that sport and wellbeing stay integral.
We’re additionally excited by the potential for worldwide collaboration, which, in time, will construct a worldwide community of Elizabethans for the good thing about our new college students in addition to these inside the state sector in Barnet
Neil Enright, Queen Elizabeth’s Faculty, Barnet
Neil Enright, headmaster of Queen Elizabeth’s Faculty, Barnet, emphasised the college’s dedication to fostering alternative and management, saying: “We’re delighted to have acquired this encouragement from the KHDA to supply a rounded and enriching QE schooling to youngsters within the UAE, spreading alternative and supporting college students to grow to be the leaders of their era.”
“We’re additionally excited by the potential for worldwide collaboration, which, in time, will construct a worldwide community of Elizabethans for the good thing about our new college students in addition to these inside the state sector in Barnet,” he mentioned.
“[That prior interest] confirmed to us the power of our model and the power of a rounded however extremely tutorial schooling. So the senior employees and governors right here have been this transfer for fairly a very long time,” he mentioned.
This time, although, working with GEDU, the college was assured it was the appropriate transfer. “They’re educationalists, they’re skilled at partnering with plenty of universities in different components of the world…we felt an actual alignment of values with them,” mentioned Enright.
Dan Clark has been appointed as the college’s founding principal, having been deputy head of the elite Marlborough School since 2020.
“All through my profession in excellent faculties, I’ve seen how highly effective schooling might be,” mentioned Clark.
“It challenges pupils to assume deeply, act responsibly and imagine in their very own capability to attain.”
“These values are basic to the QE method. As founding principal of QE Dubai Sports activities Metropolis, I’m excited to determine a neighborhood that may produce assured, ready and accountable younger people who find themselves able to form the long run.”
