Our Family Adventure with SABIS

” January 2012 Dear Sir In August 2009 my wife, daughter and I embarked on our adventure to the UAE. Having secured positions with SABIS as advisors for the PPP Project, we were filled with excitement but also fear and trepidation. We were leaving our support structures and comforts of our home in South Africa. [...]

Four New PPP Schools to Join the SABIS® School Network

The SABIS® School Network is proud to announce the impending opening of four new Public-Private Partnership (PPP) schools to be located in various cities across Kurdistan, the semi-autonomous region located in northern Iraq. Supported by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and operated by SABIS®, the four schools will open in September 2012 and are expected [...]

SABIS , PPP and ADEC

Who would have thought it possible to find a country boy from St. Thomas, Jamaica WI here in the Middle East? Since arriving here in August 2008 I have gained valuable experience towards my ultimate goal of opening a school for disadvantaged boys in my homeland, Jamaica. I have had the opportunity of leading professional [...]

Mrs. Jennifer Van Den Berg ISC Ruwais

As I entered The International School of Choueifat, Abu Dhabi, I was totally overwhelmed by the structure. As an AQC trainee, I slowly gathered the needed information to become part of your establishment which implements the Sabis Point System. Then I joined the PPP initiation team as AQC, where I met many staff members from [...]

Couples who met in SABIS

When I was in SABIS school X for those memorable years of my life I recall so many couples who came to the region single, met in the school and later married. I have kept in contact with many of them and I find it fascinating to watch how their lives have evolved with their mixture of cultures, [...]

Justin’s experience

I applied to teach in the Emirates after I finished my final year in college, because I wasn’t quite sure what I wanted to do with my life and thank goodness I did! The people I have met, the lifestyle I live and the different opportunities that are now available to me have made the [...]

Deirdre’s experience

I arrived in The UAE in August of 2006 having been recruited from University College Dublin. I had just finished my Higher Diploma in Education and was eager to acquire a full time position as a teacher although not in Ireland. I wanted to travel and using my qualifications was also very important to me. [...]

Maria’s Experience

I came to  in August of 2000, to take up a position as an English teacher at the International School of Choueifat in . Almost seven years later, I can look back at my time here with a sense of pride and achievement. I am a thirty year old Irish woman, and graduated from University [...]