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News | Day of Dubai
ini a ves aim to enhance daily health habits and promote sustainable lifestyle choices, contribu ng
significantly to student and staff wellness.
The World’s Best School Prizes, founded by T4 Educa on in collabora on with Accenture, American Express,
and the Lemann Founda on, are the most pres gious educa on awards globally. This year’s winners will
share a $50,000 prize fund and will be invited to the World Schools Summit in Dubai on November 23-24,
2024.
Key Statements
Vikas Pota, Founder of T4 Educa on and the World’s Best School Prizes, said: "Unless we solve the urgent
challenges global educa on faces – from learning gaps exacerbated by COVID to chronic underfunding and
the growing teacher wellbeing, recruitment and reten on crisis – we will have failed the next genera on.
Trailblazing UAE schools like Dubai Interna onal Academy Emirates Hills and GEMS Legacy School, which
have cul vated a strong culture and aren’t afraid to innovate, show the difference that can be made to so
many lives. Schools everywhere can now learn from their solu ons, and it’s me governments do so as
well."
Jill Huntley, Managing Director – Global Corporate Ci zenship, at Accenture, remarked: "Congratula ons to
Dubai Interna onal Academy Emirates Hills in the UAE on being named among the Top 10 finalists for the
World’s Best School Prize for Environmental Ac on 2024. Your vital work brings hope that solu ons can be
found to some of the greatest challenges we face today. Through the pla orm of the World’s Best School
Prizes, your solu ons will now inspire countless others across the globe from the classrooms to the
administra on."
The winners of the five Prizes will be selected by an expert Judging Academy based on rigorous criteria.
Addi onally, all 50 shortlisted schools will par cipate in a Public Vote, with the most voted school receiving
the Community Choice Award and membership in T4 Educa on’s Best School to Work program to support
teacher wellbeing and address the teacher recruitment and reten on crisis.
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