22% of Indian, Pakistani schools in Dubai failing

Wednesday, 17 February 2010 3:29 PM

More than one in five Indian and Pakistani schools in Dubai have been rated unsatisfactory by inspectors, it was announced on Wednesday.

Of the 23 schools inspected by the Dubai Schools Inspection Bureau (DSIB), another seven were categorised as good while 11 were judged to be acceptable.

None of the schools were classified as outstanding, a statement from the Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA) added.

The DSIB's inspections were the first for Indian and Pakistani schools in the emirate and results include a 20-page report on each school, which will be made public on the KHDA's website on Thursday.

Dr Abdulla Al Karam, chairman and director general at the KHDA, said: "This round of inspections continues our mission to provide evidence-based data about all of our schools in Dubai so that we know where we stand. Only then can we work on raising the standard of the education we can offer our children.

"We urge parents to read the full reports...Just like last year, those schools which have shown areas of weakness will be encouraged to improve, and will receive follow-up visits from our inspectors."

Last year, the first inspection of schools showed nearly 10 percent were rated unsatisfactory.

Out of 69 schools inspected, six were deemed to be below the standards expected while four were rated excellent.

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Posted by: Parvin Sunday, 11 April 2010 2:46 PM[UAE] - UAE

Education is the right of every child. The private school management should consider this and try to make every effort that the fee they are charging does not give parent an additional burden, specially in the climate of economic down time, higher living cost, rents e.t.c. I think that most of the private schools have price them out by increasing the tuition fees, some of them up to 100 percent. This is some thing which has added to the difficulties of expat community who are already under immense pressure. The authorities must try to see that schools do not charge unnecessarily high fees, in the name of K.H.D.A or GOVT. APPROVAL to increase fees which most of the schools use to justify their fee increase. The school management should also consider the income group which they are addressing to and ask what is the average income of people? How much people can really pay out of their income, which for majority to people, I would say about 90 percent is not under high income bracket. The school management should consider on getting more number of students to their school which on a long term basis would be giving them the profit they are looking for.

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Posted by: Dan Monday, 22 February 2010 5:49 PM[UAE] - Sweden

Maybe you all should stop comparing if the Indian or Pakistani schools are the best or not. Maybe you should think more of the fact that we all are being robed by greedy school owners by fee charges not heard of even in well known private schools in west were they pay top $ to their staff.

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Posted by: NAIVE Monday, 22 February 2010 11:04 AM[UAE] - UAE

I DONOT THINK THAT ANY OF SCHOOL MATCH THEIR STANDARD WITH THE FEES CHARGED BY THEM

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Posted by: sujac Sunday, 21 February 2010 6:11 PM[UAE] - UAE

The details provided were mentioned clearly in the news papers. Fahad's reaction and comments are based on his frustration. Pls forgive him.

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Posted by: George T Sunday, 21 February 2010 1:30 PM[UAE]

Here are the facts: Total number of Indian Schools inspected: 20 Outstanding: None Good: 7 Acceptable: 10 Unsatisfactory: 3 Total number of Pakistani Schools inspected: 3 Outstanding: None Good: None Acceptable: 1 Unsatisfactory: 2 Now Fahad - will you take back what you wrote with obvious ignorance?

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