GEMS Education , established as a Global Education Management System ( GEMS ), is an international education company. It is a global advisory and management firm owned by Indian billionaires, and is the largest operator of the world's 12th-grade schools in the world, with a network of over 70 schools in more than a dozen countries. Founded by Indian businessman Sunny Varkey, GEMS provides pre-school, elementary and secondary education. Through its consulting body, GEMS Education Solutions, the company works internationally with public and private sector clients on school improvement initiatives.
The Varkey Foundation, formerly known as the Varkey GEMS Foundation, is a philanthropic branch of GEMS Education. It aims to influence 100 underprivileged children for every child enrolled in the GEMS school.
Established and headquartered in Dubai, GEMS has offices in the UK, USA, Singapore, India, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Egypt, Kenya, Switzerland, and United Arab Emirates.
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History
Initial school and Varkey Group
GEMS Education is rooted in the family guidance business in Dubai started by India-born teacher K.S. and Mariama Varkey in 1959. The discovery of oil in Dubai in 1966 brought many foreign workers to an undeveloped emirate, including many from the Indian subcontinent. With the increasing demand for English education for children of Indian expatriates, Varkeys founded our own High School in Dubai in 1968.
When in 1980 the local government insisted that our own English High School was placed in a specially built facility, Varkeys's son Sunny Varkey took over the school operation, which taught less than 400 students at the time. He soon expanded the school, and added a new school as well. The educational situation in Dubai is ripe for expansion, because local schools are only for native Arabs, and children of expatriates whose numbers are increasing need their own education. Under the umbrella organization of the Varkey Group, Sunny Varkey opens Indian, Pakistani and English schools, and offers education under a different curriculum: India (Secondary Education Center and Secondary Indian Certificate of Education), USA, UK, and then International Baccalaureate, French, and dual curriculum and local.
GEMS Establishment
Having created a strong school network in Arab Gulf countries, in 2000 Varkey founded Global Education Management Systems (GEMS), an advisory and educational management company, before overseas expansion worldwide. In 2003, he began to open a GEMS school in England, starting with Sherborne House in Hampshire and Bury Lawn in Milton Keynes. Soon after, he took over Sherfield School in Hampshire, and bought 10 other schools in England, especially in the north.
In 2004, the GEMS group opened its first school in India. Varkey continues to add schools to the continent, and also purchases a controlling stake in India-based Everonn Education, run by the Varkey Group and GEMS. GEMS then opened schools in Africa, Southeast Asia, the US, and Europe. It is the largest operator of the world's 12th-tier private schools in the world, and by 2015 has more than 70 schools in more than a dozen countries. Two US schools are in Chicago: pre-school, and pre-school schools through GEMS World Academy-Chicago elementary school, which opened in 2014 and will eventually be extended to the 12th grade.
In 2010, GEMS Education became an official member of the World Economic Forum (WEF) as one of the WEF Global Growth Companies. In 2012, this became a 'Partner' of Global Growth Companies, granting the right to attend the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos. Also in 2010, former US president Bill Clinton named GEMS Education as a strategic partner of the Clinton Global Initiative, which gathers global leaders to design and implement innovative solutions to some of the most pressing challenges in the world.
In 2012, GEMS Education receives the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Global Educational Education School for Global School Education. The year was also named Education Company of the Year at the Gulf Business Industry Awards, and also received the same award in 2013.
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Structure and philosophy
The GEMS School is established in various price brackets, to serve all markets and income levels. More expensive schools have more basic facilities and facilities such as golf and tennis facilities, and smaller class sizes. The quality of education is maintained in schools with a range of budgets using excellent teachers, with efficiency and time and space savings, and by leveraging their extensive experience: the large network of GEMS schools share resources and information and provide training to teachers throughout the system. When entering new markets, GEMS schools also benefit from local partners who understand local conditions; partners provide local knowledge that may not be clear through standard market research.
The GEMS School aims to instill students with universal values, and is directed to form graduates who are global citizens with leadership qualities. GEMS aims to equip children to live in a multicultural environment, and emphasizes the importance of giving back to others both locally and globally.
GEMS Education Solutions
GEMS has two divisions: schools and educational services. GEMS Education Solutions is the GEMS Education consulting body, which provides educational services and advice. Founded in 2011, takes on projects mainly in UK, Africa, and Asia. It works with governments and nonprofits, and public and private clients.
One of the GEMS Education Solutions projects is to assist and advise the state school system in the United Arab Emirates. In Saudi Arabia, through the Oxford Partnership, GEMS Education Solutions manages three newly built female vocational schools. The three-year diploma program includes training in IT, communication, basic science and English, before turning to specialization and on-the-job training.
In Ghana, GEMS Education Solutions implements MGCubed - Creating Great Ghana Girls - which complement two classrooms in every Ghana primary school with computers, projectors, satellite modems, and solar panels, creating interactive interactive learning platforms to deliver both in formal school teaching and informal after-school training. The project teaches 8,000 students in 72 Ghana schools, and the first interactive sub-Saharan Africa interactive learning project. The program aims to prevent drop out and shortcomings among women. Students participate more in these classes, in contrast to standard rote learning systems, and the video system also reduces teacher absenteeism. Each week, the project also carries role models - a successful Ghana woman - to talk with students across the country.
In 2014, GEMS Education Solutions publishes a study entitled The Efficiency Index, which analyzes which public education system, by country, provides the best value for money. Basing its analysis on the values ​​of the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), this study also details teacher salaries and class sizes in national schools. Analyzing the results, The Economist notes GEMS 'Adam Still's opinion that "many of the highest spenders may have passed the' peak efficiency '- the point where more money is bringing diminishing returns, and from PISA Andreas Schleicher that "Teacher quality has a clearer impact than class size". Writing in Forbes, Michael Horn wrote that the report did not take into account extensive tutoring after the school received most of the public school students in South Korea, which ranks second in the list after Finland. In a review of the BBC News from the report, it noted that "This study highlights that smaller class sizes or teacher salaries are not necessarily linked to better outcomes", but vice versa. "Underprivileged teachers can also seen as 'inefficient' because it is a barrier to hiring good quality staff - with low salaries contributing to Brazil and Indonesia's poor performance in this ranking. "
Philanthropic arm
GEMS Education's philanthropic arm is the Varkey Foundation. Founded in 2010 as the Varkey GEMS Foundation, and intends to influence 100 poor children for every child enrolled in GEMS schools, through education enrollment and access initiatives, worldwide teacher training programs, advocacy campaigns, and physical projects such as building space classes, schools, and learning centers. Bill Clinton launched the foundation.
In March 2011, the foundation partnered with UNESCO for girls' education in Lesotho and Kenya, and donated $ 1,000,000 for the effort. In September 2011, an additional $ 1 million was pledged with UNESCO to train 10,000 principals in India, Ghana and Kenya. In 2014, the Foundation Teacher Training Program is committed to training 250,000 teachers in 10 years in underserved communities around the world.
In 2013, the foundation helped launch the annual Global Education and Skills Forum, in partnership with UNESCO and the UAE Department of Education. Bill Clinton gave the opening keynote address.
At the second annual forum in March 2014, the foundation announced the Global Master Gift, a $ 1 million award to an outstanding teacher who has made outstanding contributions to this profession, presented at the third annual GESF in March 2015. Nancie Atwell, a British teacher in rural Maine with 42 years of innovative teaching and pioneering, was awarded the inaugural prize; he donated the full amount to the Nonprofit Teaching and Learning Center, a demonstration school created for the purpose of developing and disseminating teaching methods. The 2016 Global Teachers Award was given to a Palestinian teacher, Hanan Al Hroub. The Varkey Foundation hopes the $ 1 million annual prize will be the "Nobel Prize" of teaching.
In 2014, the Varkey Foundation, together with UNESCO, participates in Business Backs Education, a global advocacy campaign that encourages businesses, corporations and companies to support education at the same level as they support other basic services such as health care. Bill Clinton launched the initiative. The Varkey Foundation publishes a report analyzing charitable education donations from the top 500 global companies, recommending that education be a higher priority for corporate social responsibility expenditures.
Corporate governance
Sunny Varkey is the founder of GEMS Education Group. His eldest son Dino Varkey is Executive Director of GEMS Education Group and Member of the GEMS Education Council. Younger Sunny's son Jay Varkey is Executive Director of GEMS Education Group and Member of GEMS Global Council. C. N. Radhakrishnan is the Senior Executive Director, Head of Office Chairman, and Member of the GEMS Education Council.
In 2014, Sir Michael Peat, former personal secretary of Prince Charles from 2002-2011, became the new independent GEMS Chairman. The appointment came as Sunny Varkey sold 20% of the GEMS emerging market - covering the Middle East, North Africa and East Asia - to a consortium of investors led by Fajr Capital, and including Blackstone and Mumtalakat Holding Company.
In another important appointment, Ralph Tabberer, formerly Director General of Schools in the UK at the Department for Children, Schools and Families, is the GEMS Principal Officer and Chief Operating Officer from 2009-2012. In 2014, GEMS Education appoints former principal of Eton College, Tony Little as Chief Education Officer; he is responsible for ensuring the quality of education throughout the global chain.
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GEMS in Middle East and North Africa
United Arab Emirates
GEMS Education was founded in Dubai, and its first school there, College of English itself, was originally opened in 1968. The company still has the strongest presence in Dubai and in the United Arab Emirates. By 2017, GEMS has 45 schools in the United Arab Emirates, including 30 schools in Dubai, 7 in Abu Dhabi, 1 in Fujairah, and 4 in Sharjah.
GEMS is the largest education provider in the UAE, and the UAE account holds over 90% of its business. The need for quality schools serving the long-term and prosperous expatriate community of the UAE has grown rapidly.
After years initially serving primarily for Indian immigrant workers, GEMS grew rapidly in Dubai. As emirates evolved into an international center, the demographics of expatriates shifted from short-term workers from several countries to the long-term displaced residents with their entire families from countries around the world. GEMs are tailored to schools for each demographic, varying and adding new curricula and price ranges for each level of income and nationality.
The curriculum offered by GEMS schools in UAE offerings includes:
- Initial Foundation Stage
- International Baccalaureate (IB)
- National Curriculum for England
- National Curriculum for UK and IB
- The American Curriculum
- American and IB curriculum
- Secondary Education Center (CBSE) (Indian curriculum)
- IGCSE (Pre-IBIS International UK) and CBSE (India)
- ICSE/ISC (India)
With ever-increasing immigration, since public schools are only available to the indigenous Emirati, the demand for private schools in Dubai and UAE continues to outstrip supply, causing long waiting lists in many schools. Many native Emirate also choose to send their children to private schools, and since 2011 the number of Emirati native students at GEMS schools has increased faster than other nationalities. All told, about 90% of students in Dubai are in private schools, and with a rapidly increasing population, the enrollment of private schools in Dubai has doubled in the decade from 2003 to 2013.
Although the new private schools in Dubai can start by charging whatever fees they choose, the increase in school fees is controlled, restricted, and sometimes frozen, by the Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA), which starts the rating school and manages the appropriate cost increases in 2008 This puts pressure on existing low-cost schools, which face teacher losses to more favorable new schools, and the inability to offset inflation and rising rental rates, salaries, utilities, and maintenance and repair of facilities. By the end of 2012, GEMS announced its projected closure in June 2014 at Westminster School, Dubai, citing cost increases that prevent it from maintaining educational standards and improving education and infrastructure. After a campaign by parents and students to keep the school open, GEMS announced in May 2013 that the school will remain open.
The overall school GEMS in the UAE has earned a reputation for high-quality academic results, routinely exceeding the average national exam and out-performing original peers in the official international curriculum exam. Almost all students go to universities, including to many world-renowned universities.
In the performing arts, GEMS Education in the UAE has been hosting the annual pre-teen singing competition Best of the Best since 2008. The GEMS-school short film competition for GEMS student filmmaker GEMS Student Voice has been held annually in Dubai since 2013. In 2015, by invitation, GEMS Modern Academy students in Dubai showcase their rock-opera Shakuntala version at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
GEMS UAE has promoted innovation both in UAE and worldwide. In 2012 GEMS in UAE partnered with Springside Chestnut Hill Academy in Philadelphia for three days of Global Entrepreneurship Bootcamp held at GEMS Wellington International School in Dubai. The event takes students from all over the world together to design innovative solutions to local problems, and includes meetings with various civilian leaders. GEMS also provides teacher training for over 70 public schools in Abu Dhabi.
In accordance with technological advances, in 2009 GEMS in the UAE implemented a customized virtual learning environment (VLE) throughout its schools; and in 2013, GEMS started installing its own Carry Device (BYOD) wireless system in all of its schools in the UAE. In February 2015, GEMS launched Blended Learning Plaza, located at GEMS Wellington Academy-Silicon Ã, Oasis, located in Silicon Oasis Dubai; this facility provides the latest technology in education, enabling collaboration, online, and integrated learning opportunities.
GEMS Education in the UAE has partnered with Microsoft in several ways. In 2011 Microsoft launched the "Innovate, Teach, Inspire" program at the GEMS school in the UAE; the program trains GEMS teachers in UAE on several Microsoft tools, including Microsoft Office, PowerPoint, Windows Live Movie Maker, Windows Live Blogging, and SkyDrive. Beginning in 2015 Microsoft provides all GEMS students in UAE full free access to Office 365 Pro Plus, which includes applications such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Access, Publisher, Outlook, Lync, and InfoPath, and allows students to run Office up to five machines and mobile devices across platforms. Microsoft also offers students a series of online seminars and workshops in various Office 365 Pro Plus technologies.
In December 2015, GEMS Education and the UAE Department of Education launch the annual UAE National Teacher Prize. The winners received AED1 Ã, million, and the top 21 railway nominees abroad at some of the best educational institutions in the world. The prize winner, now called Emirates Innovative Teacher Award, is announced annually in February at the Government Summit.
Each selected school
The GEMS World Academy in Dubai, which opened in 2008, is the company's flagship school, and is the most expensive school in Dubai. The International School of Baccalaueureate, its enrollment consists of about 2,000 students from over 80 nationalities. It has a specially designed planetarium; facilities for art, science and language; robotics laboratory; TV, radio and recording studio; and a music room with Steinway piano. Sports facilities include Olympic-size swimming pools, soccer fields, running tracks, tennis courts, squash courts, skating parks, gymnasiums and sports hall with retractable seating. It also has a 650 seat auditorium; an amphitheater; cafà © s and the garden on the roof; and at a breakfast place or an afternoon club for parents to meet teachers.
Our own English High School in Dubai, now exclusively for girls, has 10,000 enrollments and tuition fees that are roughly one-tenth of the GEMS World Academy, while maintaining academic excellence. It is the single largest single location school girl in the world, offers an Indian curriculum, and has a waiting list of several thousand.
GEMS American Academy, Abu Dhabi opened in 2011 by Bill Clinton. In September 2013, the school hosted basketball star Kobe Bryant for a basketball skills clinic for selected students, as part of Kobe Bryant Health and Fitness Weekend in the UAE, sponsored by GEMS Education; the clinic is also broadcast live to the GEMS World Academy in Dubai. By 2015 a team of three students from the school competes in the annual Digital Forensic Competition of New York University, along with 11 other teams selected from over 800 teams around the world.
In 2012 Cambridge International School, Dubai is named by Microsoft as one of the innovative Pathfinder Schools from around the world, and this is the only recognized UAE school. In 2015 the school, which follows the UK curriculum, is recognized as the top school for Arabic in Dubai, in the Perfect English education competition in its second year to include Dubai.
In September 2014, GEMS opened the GEMS Sports Academy, which is a two-year full-time education in a professional sports academy development program, in Dubai. The sports academy was originally held at the GEMS Wellington Academy-Silicon Ã, Oasis, and offers a two-year International Baccalaureum diploma program with professional athletic training.
Elsewhere in MENA
In 2010, GEMS took over the management of the Kingdom School, a subsidiary of Kingdom Holding Company, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Two campus schools, one for boys and one for girls, cover kindergarten through high school and established in 2000. This school caters mainly to families in Saudi Arabia, and teaches a bilingual English and Arabic-language curriculum. It contains a number of sports and leisure facilities, science and language laboratories, and libraries, and includes internet access and technology for each student. In 2012 this school is recognized as environmentally friendly, and became the first school in Saudi Arabia to adopt the concept of basic sustainability.
In September 2012, GEMS opened the World Academy at King Abdullah Economic City (KAEC) in Saudi Arabia. The academy, which includes kindergarten through high school, is the city's first new school. It offers an International International curriculum leading to the certification of Baccalaalaureat International, and is designed to meet international education standards within the context of Saudi Arabian cultural values. Its facilities, curriculum and library feature state-of-the-art electronic devices and accessibility, and it contains an English language center for improving English language skills. In 2014 construction began to expand schools and add to science laboratories as well as new design and technological facilities.
In Egypt, GEMS opened the Windrose Academy in Cairo in 2013, offering a mixed curriculum focused on the UK National Curriculum. GEMS Academy-Alexandria opened in 2014, with an English and French curriculum.
The company opened its first school in Qatar, GEMS American Academy, in September 2014. The school is located in Al Wakrah, and offers an American curriculum based around the United States Joint United States Core Standards, while still appreciating the Islamic faith and Qatari language, history, and culture. It provides after-school activities including Spanish club, cultural dance, choir, robotics, and yoga. Originally opened for kindergarten until the 5th grade, with plans to then progress through high school.
In the fall of 2015, GEMS opened a school featuring the National English Curriculum in Qatar. The school, GEMS Wellington School-Qatar, is located in Al Wakrah and opened with pre-school to grade 6, with plans to expand secondary schools in the coming years.
GEMS in the United Kingdom
GEMS acquired and opened schools in the UK starting in 2003. Most of its schools in the UK are independent coeducational day schools.
In the fall of 2003, he acquired Sherborne House in Hampshire - a school for ages 3-11 established in 1933. Its location on a four-acre campus, and in 2013 a new block of classrooms was added. The school offers scholarships in academic, artistic, sports, and music subjects, and has a special needs unit. In 2014 the school received an Artsmark Gold award from the Arts Council of England.
Also in the fall of 2003, GEMS acquired Bury Lawn School in Milton Keynes, northwest London. The school was founded in 1970 and moved to its current location in 1987, and serves for ages 3-18. In 2005, parents complained publicly after the departure of the fourth head teacher in two years; some parents also objected to the increase in class size from 18 to 24 after GEMS acquired the school. GEMS later withdrew from plans to sponsor two academies, or state-funded independent schools, at Milton Keynes.
In Bury Lawn, GEMS added a new sports hall, music room, dance and drama studio, ICT laboratory and math department in 2004, and in 2006 renewed the science department and added four new laboratories. In September 2011 the school was renamed after city designer Melvin M. Webber, who was responsible for Milton Keynes's unique city layout, and it became Independent Webber's School, with a new head teacher and a new focus. By 2014 Webber Independent is the best-performing academic school in Milton Keynes on the GCSE, and by 2015 increased its score despite the national downturn in GCSE results. In level A, Webber Independent is also the best performing school in Milton Keynes from 2014-15.
In 2004, GEMS acquired the site for Sherfield School - Sherfield Manor real estate in Hampshire, which was founded on more than 70 acres. The site has previously been a boarding school for women, North Foreland Lodge, since 1947. GEMS started Sherfield School as a coeducational school day, and added dormitory facilities in 2010 and 2015, including residential buildings for students with autism and severe learning disabilities. The school is GEMS "premium" school in the UK, at a higher cost than high school. These include extensive sports fields, facilities, and training; dance training; and art galleries and artists' residence. This school covers the ages of 3 months to 18 years, and is an International Baccalaueureate school.
In 2004, GEMS also acquired The Hampshire School, Chelsea at Chelsea, London. The school was founded by June Hampshire in Surrey in 1928, and moved to London in 1933. It is an independent co-educational school for children between the ages of 3 and 13, and since 2009 has been placed in the former historic Chelsea library, listed.
GEMS has acquired The Hampshire School, Chelsea from Nord Anglia Education. At that time in 2004, GEMS earned a total of 10 schools, seven of them in northern England, from Nord Anglia, which has refocused on its children's school business. In 2007, GEMS announced the sale of Kingswood College in Lancashire to developers, citing the high cost of maintaining its property, Scarisbrick Hall, a 19th century historic Grade I listed building; local supporters buy it and keep it open as a school. In July 2013, GEMS sold all its schools in northern England. After the class size drops to less than half, GEMS also sells Bolitho School in Penzance in 2015; GEMS has taken over the school in 2010 when it was in the curator and when the number of students has decreased.
In 2013, GEMS set up a GEMS Learning Trust, an educational charity sponsored by the Department of Education, sponsored by colleges and established to run free schools and colleges free of charge in the UK. It is sponsored by GEMS Education Solutions, public sector management and GEMS Education delivery. Twickenham Main Academy opens in September 2015 in Twickenham, Richmond upon Thames, London; starting with the acceptance of the class it caters for children ages 4 to 11. Its Didcot Primer Academy, for breeding to age 11, opened in September 2016 in Didcot, Oxfordshire in a new development designed to accommodate the thriving city dwellers.
GEMS in India
The Cambridge GEMS International School at Dasuya in Punjab opened in 2006. The lessons start from the nursery class up to the 12th grade, and the school offers an Indian (CBSE) and British (IGCSE) curriculum. Started as a co-educational day school, in 2010 it added a boys' dormitory to dormitories. The school is on an 8-acre campus and covers a wide range of science, ICT, sports, and extra-curricular facilities. The World of Education rated the school. 1 in Hoshiarpur, No. 3 in the state of Punjab, and No. 35 in India by 2015. At the World Education Summit 2015, the school won a prize for Innovation in Teaching Pedagogy.
The GEMS Cambridge International School in Hoshiarpur, Punjab opened in 2008. It is a cum residential school day and offers a CBSE and IGCSE curriculum. The campus is 15 hectares and includes laboratories for science and ICT, art and performing arts studios, and indoor and outdoor sports areas and swimming pools. A team of students from the school and from GEMS Cambridge International School in Batala were selected to perform bhangra dance at a cultural celebration at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. In 2013 cricketer Harbhajan Singh inaugurated his Institute of Cricket at school.
GEMS International School in Gurgaon in the New Delhi area was launched in April 2010. The school, which receives toddlers through 12th grade, has a five-hectare campus, offers a CBSE curriculum, and is a boarding school. All classrooms have Smart Boards and LCD screens. Sports facilities include a basketball court, tennis court, soccer field, skating rink, and cricket pitch. Schools have science labs, math labs, language labs, and ICT labs. Special facilities include ballroom, music room, art & amp; craft room and video conferencing room. Out of season, summer camps are available with activities for children ages 3 to 16, including non-GEM students.
GEMS Akademia International School in Kolkata opened in April 2011. The school has a 20-acre campus, and offers day, day and residential options. By 2015, the school is No. 1 in Kolkata, No. 3 in the state of West Bengal, and No. 63 in India by World Education . It comprises nursery through grade 12, and teaches CIE and CISCE curriculum. Facilities include laboratories for various sciences, maths, languages, and computers; art facilities and performing arts; and various indoor and outdoor sports facilities.
GEMS Cambridge International School in Batala, Punjab opened in 2011. It offers an Indian (CBSE) or English (CIE) double choice curriculum. Facilities include science labs, math labs, computer science labs, swimming pools, indoor sports courts, dance studios, and music room. In 2015 schools serve play schools up to the 7th year, with day and day options.
The GEMS Modern Academy in Gurgaon in the New Delhi area opened in 2014. It is a day and dormitory facility for children from pre-kindergarten through 12th grade. It is a CBSE school with facilities for arts, sports, science, technology and academics on a five-hectare campus. It also offers summer camps for sports, fitness, art, and other activities.
GEMS in sub-Saharan Africa
GEMS opened its first school in sub-Saharan Africa in Kenya - GEMS Cambridge International School in Nairobi - in September 2012. The school capacity is 2,000 students, including dormitories, from kindergarten to 13. It offers a UK curriculum, and IGCSE exams as well as A-level English for graduates. In 2014, a 6-lane tartan track, 400 meters completed in the schoolyard, to help young athletes; it also allows Kenyan elite athletes to train their pace of work. A range of school sports facilities also include hockey and basketball and tennis courts.
In August 2015, GEMS Cambridge International School in Nairobi launches Lego Education Innovation Studio, a $ 55,000 facility and program in partnership with Lego Education that teaches and strengthens Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Literacy at all ages, and promotes importance thinking, creativity, innovation, problem solving, and collaboration. The curriculum and equipment provide a direct learning approach that actively involves students in their own learning process.
GEMS Cambridge International School in Uganda opens in September 2013, in Uganda's capital Kampala. It caters to students ages 3 to 18, with the UK curriculum directed toward IGCSE, US-level, and A-level qualifications. The school also encourages the appreciation of Ugandan culture and gives back to the local community. In 2015, the Uganda Olympic Committee signed a partnership with the school, to include Olympic studies and training as part of the school's physical education curriculum. School sports facilities also provide training venues for various national sports teams and hosting venues for the competition.
GEMS in the United States
In the fall of 2012, GEMS Education opened its first school in the United States, Little GEMS International-Chicago, pre-school in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago. It is an upscale preschool, and operates for several hours. He receives the age of six weeks to five years, and in addition to personal, social, emotional, creative, and intellectual development, children are exposed to world language and digital literacy at an early age.
Also in Chicago, the company opened GEMS World Academy-Chicago in September 2014. It is an International Baccalaalaureate school, and is located in Chicago Lakeshore East development. Preschool for the eighth-grade building opened in 2014, and garnered much attention for its eye-catching architecture with color accents. Senior high schools for grades nine through 12 are scheduled to open in autumn 2017. The school offers global education and provides links with students worldwide. Students receive specially equipped laptops and iPads, which are used primarily in weekly field studies around Chicago.
In 2014 GEMS World Academy-Chicago instituted the GEMS Education Chicago Teacher Award for $ 50,000. The inaugural winner, in June 2014, was Matthew Cunningham, a teacher at Frederic Chopin Elementary School in the Ukrainian Village in Chicago's West Side.
In 2013, GEMS Education is trying to find a location to build a school on the Upper East Side of New York City; But the process was eventually left in the midst of litigation relating to property contracts.
In early 2010, the GEMS consulting agency, GEMS Education Solutions, partnered in managing several US schools. In 2009, Manny Rivera, CEO of GEMS Education Solutions and GEMS Americas, formed Global Partnership Schools with former Chancellor Rudy Crew of New York City School. Global Partnership Schools, in partnership with GEMS Education Solutions, and funded by the newly installed Three-Year Schools Enhancement Fund (SIG), are managing some of the previously failed schools in the US from 2010. The result, as with many GIS recipients from 2010- 2012, mixed; in August 2012 the company refused to renew its contract with one school district. A joint venture company also sponsored two new charter schools in Ohio called Believe to Achieve Academies starting in fall 2012; they are closed in the spring of 2014 because of the inability to meet the purpose of registration.
GEMS in Europe
The first GEMS school in continental Europe is GEMS World Academy-Etoy, located in Etoy, Switzerland in the Lake Geneva region between Geneva and Lausanne. The school opens in autumn 2013 for students from pre-school to 8th grade, with plans to expand to 12th grade and up to 1,000 students. The school, which is an English-speaking school with a strong emphasis on France, serves the international population of the area, as well as for local Swiss families seeking international education for their children. Upscale schools also offer scholarships based on achievements of 25% to 100% of tuition fees for local students.
GEMS World Academy-Etoy is an International Baccalaureureate school, and includes special facilities such as the World Language Learning Center, international and high-tech libraries, radio and TV studios, music centers and dyslexia support centers. Many facilities are also open to the public. New construction sports facilities, which opened in May 2015, include a 25-meter swimming pool, large multi-sport pitch for basketball, netball, handball, badminton, soccer, etc., Rock climbing wall, fitness room, and a dance studio, and is available for use by local groups and businesses outside school hours. The school aims to distinguish itself as providing holistic and innovative education that focuses on the formation of global citizens with an international vision and enhancing problem solving skills.
In November 2013, GEMS Education acquired France's first school, Ecole des Roches, a 60-acre international boarding school founded in 1899 in Normandy. Upper school, for students aged 6 to 19, serves customers from more than 100 countries. GEMS invested EUR5 million for large-scale expansion, rebuilding and school modernization for five years, making additions including new classroom buildings and dormitories, school restaurants, large entertainment auditoriums featuring theaters with orchestra symphonic holes , music studios, and major sports complexes. Sports complexes include Olympic swimming pool, ice rink, 14 tennis courts, football, rugby and squash sports fields, martial arts studios, and karting tracks; and rebuilding the school grounds to reopen flight training. GEMS makes primary schools all-digital, adds new language courses, and adds the first International Baccalaureateate curriculum in France; Ecole des Roches now offers a combination of English and French curriculum.
GEMS announced its intention to double or triple the number of Ecole des Roches' excursion and student days for five years. 2014 is the first year of GEMS school operations, and by 2015, it also offers French immersion courses for international students during the summer, year-round French-immersion exchange programs, and summer English courses.
GEMS in Southeast Asia
In September 2014, the company opened GEMS World Academy Singapore, its first school in Southeast Asia. It has an international curriculum, and is an International Baccalaureate school, offering the Cambridge International CIE/IGCSE curriculum as well. The $ 220-million school campus is projected to be completed by 2017, when it will be able to accommodate up to 3,000 students aged three to 18.
Schools focus on versatile development, including language development and commitment to communities and services. All students up to age 11 are given a violin or cello, there are soundproof studios for one-on-one music lessons, and there are also some orchestra groups and bands. Sports facilities include an Olympic-size swimming pool, an all-weather playground, a multi-purpose gym, and a rock climbing wall. The school has an audio and movie recording studio, and a 750 seat and planetarium auditorium scheduled for completion in 2017. Study languages ​​at this multilingual location include ESL support for non-native English speakers, 30 minutes daily Chinese for under-aged students 6, and after that continue studies either China, Spain, or France. Schools develop leadership skills and innovative thinking; Reggio Emilia's customized approach is used for younger students, and high school students help teachers with art, drama, music, as well as special presentations and celebrations.
In September 2015, GEMS opened GEMS International School Pearl City, in Penang, Malaysia. The school is for ages three to 18, and follows the UK National Curriculum leading to IGCSE/CIE and AS/A-level qualifications. It also accommodates the Malaysian Ministry of Education guidelines and teaches Malaysian, Mandarin, Malaysian social studies, and Islamic and moral studies. This is the first international school in Mainland Penang. Facilities include theater, music and art space, a dance studio, a gym, a soccer field, a swimming pool and a basketball court. The school plans to grow to 1,500 students within five years, eventually accommodating 3,000 students.
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