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			<title>GEMS eyes 100-strong school expansion   </title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dubai-based education provider eyes foray into India, Saudi, Egypt, Turkey & Qatar.]]></description>
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			<title>Class action</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dino Varkey, senior director of business operations at GEMS, talks fees, future plans and setting up shop in Saudi.]]></description>
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			<title>GEMS chief dismisses greed claims amid fees hike row</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[UAE education provider justifies jump in fees that sparked parent protests.]]></description>
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			<title>Private school fees in Dubai set to increase - paper</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Fees at the city’s most expensive schools will range from AED63,000 to AED92,000. ]]></description>
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			<title>UAE schools to extend hours amid late start - paper</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Classes in gov't schools for '09-10 have been postponed until after holy Ramadan.]]></description>
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			<title>Enrolment figures up despite UAE exodus fear - GEMS</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[EXCLUSIVE: Education major says pupil numbers for next term are up 5-12% on 2008.]]></description>
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			<title>One in three plan to send kids home for education</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Arabian Business poll reveals 53% think Gulf schools poor quality, expensive.]]></description>
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			<title>GEMS founder makes it onto Expat Power List</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[India-born Varkey is only person in Education sector to feature in Arabian Business list.]]></description>
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			<title>Physical abuse still goes on in Dubai schools - report </title>
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			<description><![CDATA[School inspectors reveal abuse still used in some schools to discipline students.     ]]></description>
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			<title>More than half Dubai's schools just 'acceptable'</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[School inspections class one in eight as 'unsatisfactory' and none 'outstanding'. ]]></description>
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			<title>High school confidential</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[  GEMS made headlines when it declared that it would invest $5.4 million in IT for schools. ACN talks exclusively to Mukund Patel, chief officer for educational infrastructure at the group, about the plans to allocate these funds.]]></description>
			<category>Technology | Interviews</category>
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			<title>GEMS 'assessing its position' amid new fees ruling</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[School at centre of fees hike row says impact of new fee system being considered.]]></description>
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			<title>Schools in Dubai too full to take DMHS pupils</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Parents plan to remove children from Dubai Modern High School to avoid 90% fee hike.]]></description>
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			<title>Wishing well</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Health and fitness should be as important as academic achievement in measuring a school’s success, says Amanda Brewer, managing director of Impact British Training Solutions.]]></description>
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			<title>School confirms 90% fee hike despite protests</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Fee rises at Dubai Modern High School are necessary after rent hikes, says Gems. ]]></description>
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			<title>Parents in new protest over school fees hike</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[UPDATE 1: Dubai school in discussions with authority to seek clarity over fee increase.]]></description>
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			<title>GEMS to unveil new learning experience in Feb</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Will begin deployment of its customised virtual learning environment (VLE) to UAE schools later this month]]></description>
			<category>Technology | News</category>
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			<title>Schools relax payment plans amid credit crunch</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[EXCLUSIVE: Growing threat of redundancies in UAE force schools to rethink policy on fees.]]></description>
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			<title>90% school fees hike 'due to relocation cost'</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Gems Education says huge fees rise at Dubai Modern High School forced by April move.]]></description>
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			<title>All that glitters</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Margaret Atack is determined to give all GEMS students, across all GEMS schools, an equal chance of success. ]]></description>
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			<title>GEMS invests AED 20 million in IT</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[All GEMS teachers will own laptops and every classroom will have a broadband internet connection]]></description>
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			<title>Our Own winners in robot comp</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Students from Our Own High School in Al Warqa'a have taken first place in both categories of the 2008 3rd annual UAE National Robot Olympiad.  ]]></description>
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			<title>Home truths</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[  Schools in the region must teach sustainability for the benefit of both children and the planet. Our schools can become models of sustainability.    ]]></description>
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			<title>Academy awards</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[GEMS World Academy (GWA) is set to open its doors to students this September, amongst much fanfare surrounding its facilities. But principal Stuart Dennis insists it all comes back to pedagogy.  ]]></description>
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			<title>Hire learning</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The number of schools in the region is on the increase – but can these institutes attract the right teachers?]]></description>
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			<title>GEMS signs ITWorx for e-learning gateway</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Project to bring e-learning platform to 27 GEMS schools across UAE]]></description>
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			<title>GEMS consolidates data centres on Dell</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Education provider GEMS consolidates data centres on Dell servers and SAN systems  ]]></description>
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			<title>Dubai's desert dormitories</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[British schools are queuing to open, as demand rises for an English education.  ]]></description>
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			<title>Cisco to provide technology solutions for GEMS World Academy</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dubai-based international school becomes first academic institute to employ Cisco's Digital Media System]]></description>
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			<title>First footing</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dubai teenager Casey Eaton wants to get out on the water.  ]]></description>
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