Dubai: British online school opens office, will conduct education remotely

Dubai: British online school opens office, will conduct education remotely

There is a renewed focus on homeschooling in the region, says founder

Published: Tue 28 Jun 2022, 7:36 PM

A British online education school, one of the first of its kind, has opened its office in Dubai.

The UAE is the biggest market outside of the UK for My Online Schooling (MOS). Tom Crombie, who is the founder and CEO, explains that especially after the pandemic, there is a renewed focus on homeschooling, among the UAE’s local and expatriate families.

With an aim to support children of parents travelling with work or those experiencing challenges in mainstream schools, over 165 pupils are enrolled from the UAE while the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia sees 47 pupils attend the British curriculum run school.

Crombie explains, “We are enrolling a great number of students at the moment with the year starting in September both within the UK and internationally. We continue to have very strong numbers joining in from the UAE...particularly from Dubai, and other neighbouring nations. This mainly includes Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Qatar being the largest cohort of students. Due to the pandemic people are looking at alternative ways of doing things within the society."

He adds, “We have over 80 different nationalities in the school. We’ve