Al Ittihad National Private School - Al Ain
Al Ain, UAE · est. 2004 · PrivateAl Ittihad National Private School - Al Ain is a campus of an old Emirati school group: the first school under the name opened in Dubai's Mamzar district in 1975, passed to Al Arabia for Educational Development in 1996, and the campuses opened one after another - Jumeirah in 1998, Al Ain in 2004, Abu Dhabi in 2006. The Al Ain campus stands in Falaj Hazzaa and, as the school writes, is easy to reach from any part of the city. It teaches an American programme on the Common Core standards from kindergarten to grade 12 and occupies two buildings with 56 spacious classrooms equipped with contemporary technology. The school's motto is "Creating a Generation of World Thinkers", among its principles it takes Gandhi's "be the change you want to see in the world", and it states its aim as raising future leaders who are proud of their heritage. The main thing a parent needs to know: the school states neither fees, nor student numbers, nor languages of instruction on the pages that could be read.
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Cognia · accreditationCollege Board · authorised programmeWhat stands behind each entry
The widest-reaching American accreditation: some forty thousand schools in over a hundred countries. It accredits both individual schools and whole school systems. It also sells a paid membership with no inspection behind it, and that membership is often passed off as accreditation.
What the badge means for this school. The school has been through this organisation's accreditation. It was judged as a whole: governance, safeguarding, staff, premises, teaching. The entry stands in the organisation's public register - anyone can check it.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →An American organisation that allows a school to put the letters AP on a pupil's transcript. The permission is granted course by course and tied to a particular teacher, it has to be renewed every year, and College Board reads the course syllabus before granting it.
What the badge means for this school. The school is allowed to run advanced AP courses - not the school as a whole, but one by one: by subject and by teacher. Governance, safeguarding and the primary years are not part of that check. Which subjects are actually approved is visible in the ledger. The entry stands in the organisation's public register - anyone can check it. Authorisation here runs a year at a time: the register lists the school for the 2025-2026 school year.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →Advanced Placement: American advanced courses for the senior years. The exam for a course is set and marked by the College Board, not by the school. A good result is counted by American universities as a first-year course already passed, which saves a student time and money.
What this means for this school. A school does not get to call a course AP automatically: the College Board reads the course syllabus and approves it separately for every subject and every teacher, and the permission has to be renewed each year. Every approved school in the world is listed in the open AP Course Ledger, and this school's entry there stands as a line in the accreditation block above. How many courses a school is approved for, and in which subjects, the ledger does not show in its general listing. AP has no leaving certificate of its own: it sits on top of the school's main programme rather than being a separate system.