Top UK-Rated British Schools in UAE

For some schools here in the UAE, inspection doesn’t begin and end with ADEC and the KHDA, many voluntarily choose to be further inspected by their ‘home-country’ accreditation boards overseas.

For the British curriculum schools, it’s all about BSO (British Schools Overseas) accreditation. Run by the UK Department of Education, the BSO programme gives “accreditation against standards similar to independent schools operating in Britain”, complete with published inspection reports and aims to highlight just how the school measures up to its peers in the UK.

But with seven licensed inspection bodies to rate BSO schools, finding collated up to date information isn’t always easy, in fact, even the official Department of Education website is neither comprehensive nor up-to-date in its reporting.

While we have attempted to make our entries consistent, as you can imagine, with seven differing inspection bodies in place for the BSO, reporting across agencies is not standardised and neither is the emphasis- reports vary wildly depending on the date of inspection and the licensed body which undertook the visit.