Bhavan Competitors

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.

Aspire Academy is a globally recognized national sports academy for the development of Qatar’s athletically talented boys. The internationally renowned sports programs and facilities are a symbol of Qatar’s sporting ambitions and pride. Aspire Academy provides integrated sports development, sports science and academic learning for scholarship boys from Grade 7 (12 - 13 years) to Grade 12 (17 - 18 years). Additionally, Aspire delivers an ambitious health and lifestyle program for the community delivering over 25,000 classes per annum. We are at the heart of a sporting revolution currently taking place in Qatar and around the region. We are conceiving, promoting and implementing game-changing excellence in sports that is enabling an entire generation of highly-skilled, disciplined and competent individuals, both Qataris and otherwise. We are the country’s premier and the region’s leading sports academy. This is what we do.

St Christopher’s is proud to have been serving the Kingdom’s local and expatriate community for over fifty years. From modest beginnings in the grounds of St Christopher’s Church in 1961, the school has expanded over the decades and we now have over 2200 pupils representing more than 70 nationalities. A “not for profit” school, with all income from fees being used to run and further develop the School for the benefit of our students. The school is consistently rated “Outstanding” under three different inspection regimes – British Schools Overseas; British Schools in the Middle East and the Kingdom of Bahrain’s QAAET. Our team of well qualified, experienced teachers and support staff, together form a team dedicated to the creation and maintenance of an environment in which each and every student can learn effectively and work to achieve their full individual potential. St Christopher’s is the premier choice for those parents who demand the very best British style education for their children in Bahrain.