Abu Dhabi, UAE · PrivateEmirates Private School, or EPS, is a private school in Abu Dhabi, on Street 29 in the Al Zaafarana district off Muroor Road, and it keeps three divisions under one roof. The British division prepares pupils for IGCSEs and Edexcel examinations, the American one for the SAT and AP, and the UAE Ministry of Education division teaches Arabic, Islamic studies and social subjects with an emphasis on national identity. Each division has its own named lead on the site, and there is a separate person for the kindergarten. The principal is Manal Azouqa, with more than thirty-five years in education. The school describes itself as international and inclusive and takes pupils of different nationalities and faiths. It lists its own ties and names three organisations: Cognia, Cambridge and Edexcel, describing itself as an accredited examination centre for the latter two. The school runs the SAT itself, publishes ADEK's instructions for candidates and keeps a university admission guide of its own with a list of universities. Its stated values are confidentiality, excellence, trust, teamwork, accessibility, commitment and innovation. Its sections cover the kindergarten, learning at EPS, assessment, learning support and special needs, the school library, amenities and technology, school transport, sport, arts and events, safety and security, wellbeing and child protection, and awards and inspections. The registry is open Monday to Thursday from 8 to 15 and on Friday from 8 to 12. Admission is open for both the current and the next academic year, but places are given as they appear, and the school warns plainly that siblings of its pupils come first in the queue.
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Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · IGCSE · authorised programmeCognia · accreditationCollege Board · authorised programmeWhat stands behind each entry
Part of the University of Cambridge. It allows a school to teach the Cambridge programmes and to enter pupils for the exams. There are four stages and they are authorised separately: primary, lower secondary, IGCSE and A Level. If the stages are known they are named in the line below; if that line is missing, the school does not publish them, and the Cambridge registry does not show stages either - it gives only the name of the centre, the country and whether private candidates are accepted. Cambridge calls what it does registration rather than accreditation, and the network holds about ten thousand schools.
What the badge means for this school. The school is allowed to run this programme and to award its certificate. This is a confirmation of the programme, not a judgement on the school as a whole. The entry stands in the organisation's public register - anyone can check it. At this school: IGCSE (ages 14-16). IGCSE means exams at around Year 10 or 11, the British counterpart of a lower secondary leaving certificate.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →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.