Looking for school recommendations in Dubai for two kids.

8 and 12 years old. British Curriculum.

Max affordable fee per year (per child) = 28k


Thank you in advance

er... good luck on that one! My daughter's UK Curriculum nursery is 30k, and that's middle-of-the-range!

As long as the school is decent it doesn't bother me much. Doesn't have to be top ranked

They are straight A students regardless

that's part of the issue. The schools here seem to think education is a license to print money. Other people (I don't have school-age kids) have said that they have to pay UK Public School fees for an average education.

Have a look on ExpatWoman for schools threads - beware it's a rather emotive subject! Once you sift through the gossip and speculation, you can get an idea of good ones to apply for.

There is a standards body of sorts, called the KDHA, which has produced a league table, but know that their main criteria seem to be how the school meets arabic studies - even the UK curriculum ones.

As I said - good luck. I think you will be hard pushed to find halfway decent schools at the levels you need for the money you're talking about.

Here, have a list of Dubai schools... I'm not sure how current it is, but it'll be a starting point.

You will be looking at paying at least double 28k for your 12 year old. Fees for my daughter at Secondary School are I think 50k, maybe more and this is one of only 2 non profit schools

Yeah I came across a few KDHA reports for 2009-10. Kinda pointless to be honest as most of their teaching evaluation is based on arabic studies and islamic studies as you mentioned. God knows what the hell that is about.

Thanks for taking the time to advise

I'm with the others, you wont' find a british school within your budget. Schooling here is expensive and not that great to be honest. We pay more for our kids here than we did in private schooling in Australia, but the facilities and standard of education at the schools here are equivalent or less than the free state schools at home.