My name is Kate

“Hi , my name is kate and I am a SABIS employee at one of the international school of choueifat .I am an American citizen and have been working for Sabis for 4 years now. My experience with Sabis has been great . I’ve enjoyed every day at work , with the kids , and with [...]

Pat from UK

“My name is Pat, I am 28 years old and I am from Manchester and was recruited there by a guy called sean cooney. I have been with SABIS for 6 years. I have a PGCE and started teaching primary, then secondary and then into some admin work. My life is very much in the UAE [...]

Rodd and Sarah

My name is Rodd and I am from Texas in the US. This is my third year with SABIS. I teaching primary school English. I am also studying part time for a Masters degree in Education. In my first year I met a girl called Sarah from London., she was recruited by sean cooney. We started [...]

SABIS RECRUITMENT or should I say, how they got me.

I am sure that nobody is particularly interested in how I was recruited, in fact it isn’t very interesting at all. However, I feel compelled to write about it as I have seen its method criticised elsewhere on the web. I answered an ad in a newspaper (I know now that they use the internet [...]

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 [...]