Al Ain, UAE · PrivateAl Yahar Private School and Kindergarten is a private school in Al Ain, in the Al Rifaa district, and it runs two programmes at once: the UAE ministry programme and the American one, each with its own section on the site. The cycle is a full one - from kindergarten to high school - and the school writes about itself not through results but through atmosphere: "a warm embrace and a safe home" for the student, a place where a child gains knowledge in their first school years in an atmosphere of safety and fun. It sets out its goals plainly: to build self-confidence and instil religious and moral values, to give knowledge and complex skills through high-quality curricula, to invest in the training of teachers and managers, to prepare national scientists and inventors, to spread a culture of volunteering, to work with the parents and teachers council, and to link traditional learning with electronic systems - "walking on both feet", as it puts it. The teaching staff is published by name with their subjects. Its policies - inclusion, behaviour, assessment, attendance - are published as files, in Arabic as well. There is no tuition fee on the site: the "Fees" page carries a ministry circular about textbook charges rather than a fee schedule of the school's own.
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Cognia · accreditationWhat 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 →The American school programme, with the High School Diploma at the end. It usually comes together with AP courses, which the College Board stands behind, and with an American accreditation - MSA, NEASC or Cognia.
What this means for this school. The diploma is written out by the school itself: the American programme has no common leaving exam, and the content of the senior years is set by the school. Outside checking therefore rests on two things here - the accreditation of the school, and the AP exams if the school runs them.
The state school programme of the country the school stands in: it is set by that country's ministry of education, which also licenses the school and awards the leaving certificate. That certificate is used for entry to local universities, and abroad it is matched to the local one.
What this means for this school. This entry does not count towards the score, and that is deliberate. Every lawful school in a country works to the national programme, so on its own it tells one school apart from no other - unlike the French, German or Russian programmes, which are carried abroad and confirmed by the register of their organisation. We show it because a parent needs to know what programme their child is taught and what certificate the child will get. Counting it would lift the whole ranking at once and still tell nobody apart.