UAE school group GEMS Education hires 1,800 teachers ahead of new term

UAE school group GEMS Education hires 1,800 teachers ahead of new term

Dubai: GEMS Education has hired 1,800 new teachers from around the world across its 43 schools in the UAE. The education provider announced this on Thursday at its annual induction event titled ‘GEMS Awareness Day’. At the event, held at Atlantis, The Palm, GEMS said it will be educating more than 127,000 students of 176 nationalities in total who will attend its 43 schools in the UAE, staffed by 17,000 qualified and experienced teachers from 115 countries. Many of the new teachers have been recruited from abroad, chiefly from the UK, the US and India. Among the new joiners are five new principals who will be taking the helm at schools in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, and Fujairah. The new intake of teachers spans the full range of year groups from kindergarten to post-16, and cover British, IB, US and Indian curricula. Sunny Varkey, Founder of GEMS Education, said: “I am so excited to meet all of you – the new teachers of GEMS Education who are a cornerstone of our organisation. And right now, your role could not be more important. It is teachers that build a bridge from the present to the future, taking us from where we