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UAE Handbook

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Schools and childcare

Planned scope: KHDA and ADEK, fees, admissions and nurseries.

Planned topics (12)

Each topic becomes a page once it is checked against a primary source.

  • Regulators
  • Finding schools and nurseries
  • Private schools; curricula and language
  • Age cut-offs for KG and Grade 1
  • School fees and fee increases (KHDA / ADEK frameworks)
  • Switching schools; transfer certificates
  • Equivalency of foreign school certificates
  • Admission to government schools (expats)
  • Academic year, uniforms, gender segregation, student code of conduct
  • Nurseries and early childhood regulation
  • Special educational needs
  • Higher education, recognition of degrees (MoHESR equivalency)