Indian, Pakistani schools can do better: KHDA

School inspectors at Dubai's Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA) have released their findings from the latest school inspection cycle for Indian and Pakistani schools.

  • PUBLISHED: Tue 29 Jan 2013, 9:34 AM UPDATED: Fri 3 Apr 2015, 4:30 AM
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  • Smaller class size: Inspectors report concerns over large classes and cramped learning conditions, especially in kindergarten in a few schools. It is not uncommon, in Indian curriculum schools, for example, to find classes of more than 25 children in kindergarten and more than 30 in the other elementary classes.
  • Better Arabic teaching: A few Indian curriculum schools fail to comply with the Ministry of Education requirements for the time allocated to teaching Arabic in a few grades. This shortage of teaching time is observed by inspectors to impact negatively on students’ progress. In a few schools, it is also the case that Arabic teachers are not appropriately skilled or qualified.
  • Punishment: Inappropriate punishment continues to occur in a few schools. In a number of cases, students have made complaints against their school in relation to physical punishment. Behaviour management in these schools relied on negative, rather than positive reinforcement, with students feeling humiliated and, at times, disaffected.