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GEMS Education is one of the world’s leading private K-12 education providers, educating over 200,000 students from 176+ nationalities across its global network of owned and managed schools. With nearly half a million alumni, GEMS has built a legacy of impact that spans generations and continents. Established in Dubai in 1959, GEMS remains a family-founded and family-led organisation, guided by its visionary founder and chairman Sunny Varkey, and his sons Dino Varkey (Group CEO) and Jay Varkey (Deputy Group CEO). With a focus on delivering high-quality education to students from all walks of life, GEMS offers a wide range of curricula and learning pathways. Each year, GEMS students graduate into the world’s top universities, including all eight Ivy League institutions and every UK Russell Group university, and go on to become leaders, innovators, and changemakers in every sector. Through its expanding school network and philanthropic initiatives, GEMS is committed to its mission: to put a quality education within reach of every learner, everywhere.

We draw on 150 years’ worth of Cranleigh UK experience and have infused it with Middle Eastern culture to create something truly unique to the region. Based on the community and family-oriented ethos of Cranleigh School, we opened Cranleigh Abu Dhabi on Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi in September 2014. We seek to provide a truly transforming British international education for children from FS1 Nursery to Year 13, in which intellectual, artistic, sporting, wellbeing and social development is at the heart. In addition to the broad academic curriculum which puts emphasis on the individual, the daily routine offers a wealth of opportunities which allow students to explore their full range of talents in visual and performing arts, music and sport, as well as across a broad range of co-curricular activities. Our school were rated outstanding across all six performance standards by Abu Dhabi Department of Education and Knowledge. We were named New British International School of the Year 2017 in the BIS Awards, and TES International School of the Year 2019. In September 2020 Spear's Global Schools Index, ranked Cranleigh Abu Dhabi in the Top 5 Schools in the Middle East.

JESS, Dubai is a not-for-profit British School located in Dubai, UAE, teaching pupils aged 3 - 18. JESS has three schools: JESS Jumeirah (British Curriculum aged 3-11), JESS Primary (British Curriculum aged 3-11) and JESS Secondary (GCSE and International Baccalaureate aged 11-18). JESS is a top British international Co-Ed School delivering an outstanding values-based education that is #MakingADifference