For Dubai’s Foreign Workers, Private School Fills a Void
Ashok Kumar, who grew up in Chandigarh, India, presides as chief executive officer over a private school that serves 9,000 Indian students on a sprawling campus in this fast-growing city—and every day is an educational balancing act.
Mr. Kumar must make sure that Indian High School, the name that covers the entire K-12 institution, not only follows an Indian curriculum, including daily Hindi lessons, but also complies with regulations from the United Arab Emirates’ Ministry of Education for private schools. In accordance with those regulations, the Indian school also provides daily lessons in Arabic.
Opened in 1961, the school fills an important niche in this city of about 860,000, which has a high proportion of foreign workers—many with children—who must find schooling alternatives because the UAE does not enroll non-Arabs...
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