Students, parents, and faculty members of United International Private School (UIPS), the first Filipino school in Dubai, have many reasons to celebrate its 25th year.
UIPS is the only Filipino school in the emirate rated “Good with Outstanding Features” consecutively i9n 2015 and 2016 by the Dubai Schools Inspection Bureau (DSIB), an agency of the Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA), the government agency known for its very strict and high standards in rating schools and institutions, created to standardize and monitor the quality of education in the public and private schools throughout Dubai.
It is also the first Filipino school to have the approval of both KHDA and the Philippines’ Department of Education (DepEd) to offer Grades 11 and 12 in the UAE.
School authorities vow to be innovative and be able to provide academic excellence to which it has committed to provide since its establishment in 1992. From having only 125 Filipino students when it first opened, the school is now catering to over 2,000.
“Years ago, there were no schools that the Filipino community itself had put up for their children. With the increase in the number of Filipino students coming from the Philippines, we felt obligated to open an institution where they can learn their own culture so that when they need to go back home, they will find no difference,” said UIPS owner, Dr. Mohamed Al Neyadi, who founded UIPS together with Colonel Mohammad Al Hersh.
Last Friday and Saturday, the school celebrated its 25th founding anniversary, with student-centered activities including field demonstrations and a sports event.
“I am personally proud of all our accomplishments. Our social responsibility program and projects really helped us achieve to become an excellence Filipino school. Our students not only learn academics here. We also teach them how to give especially to our kababayans who are in need in the Philippines,” Jenny Gonzales, HR and Relations manager at UIPS, told The Filipino Times.
