Arab Unity School is located in

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. The school educates about 3000 in Kindergarten to Grade 13, to the

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curriculum and for

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. The school's director and founder was Zainab Taher until she died in Mumbai on Monday, 2 May 2022. Arab Unity was founded in 1974.

Academic standards

In 2002, this became the first school to in the Middle East to obtain the 'Fellowship Centre' status from

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."Cambridge body gives 'fellowship status' to school"

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, 2 October 2002. The school pioneered the introduction of ICT skills tests into the school curriculum.

KHDA inspection report

The

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(KHDA), an educational quality assurance authority in Dubai, has published the following the inspection ratings for Arab Unity School. The 2009 rating of "Unsatisfactory" was an all-time low for the school. The main reason given for the rating was poor management and a very poor standard of teaching and a dirty environment. In 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013 the school received the rating of "Acceptable".

Sport

Arab Unity specializes in

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, and

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. In 2006, the school won the under-18 Pepsi inter-school cricket championship. Student Adil Khalil won the cricket 'Best All-rounder' award at under-15 inter-school level for 2008–09."Shyam Bhatia awards: Javed steals show with all-round effort"

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, 15 January 2009. Arab Unity School also won the inter-school cricket championship in 2015.

Notes

References

* https://web.archive.org/web/20090408024404/http://archive.gulfnews.com/nation/Education/10300574.html * http://www.gulfnews.com/nation/Education/10300570.html

External links

Official site
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