Page 49 - T4 Education PR REPORT - June 2024

Dubai International Academy Emirates Hills, an independent kindergarten through
secondary school in Dubai, UAE, which empowers students with programmes like
personalised learning pathways and project-based learning, driving community
change through culturally responsive education and sustainability projects, has been
named in the Top 10 shortlist for the World’s Best School Prize for Environmental
Action.

GEMS Legacy School, an independent school in Dubai, UAE, which is a pioneer in
comprehensive wellness in education, impacting over 6,285 students with initiatives
like school-wide fruit breaks and sleep hygiene workshops, promoting holistic
wellbeing and sustainable lifestyle choices, has been named in the Top 10 shortlist for
the World’s Best School Prize for Supporting Health Lives.

The five World’s Best School Prizes – for Community Collaboration, Environmental
Action, Innovation, Overcoming Adversity, and Supporting Healthy Lives – were
established in the wake of COVID in 2022 to give a platform to schools that are
changing lives in their classrooms and far beyond their walls, sharing their best
practices to help improve education everywhere.

The winners of the five Prizes will be chosen by an expert Judging Academy based on
rigorous criteria. In addition, all 50 shortlisted schools across the five Prizes will also
take part in a Public Vote, which opened today. The school which receives the most
public votes will receive the Community Choice Award and membership to T4
Education’s Best School to Work programme to help them support teacher wellbeing
and solve the teacher recruitment and retention crisis.
Vikas Pota, Founder of T4 Education and the World’s Best School Prizes, said:
“Unless we solve the urgent challenges global education faces – from learning gaps
exacerbated by COVID to chronic underfunding and the growing teacher wellbeing,
recruitment and retention crisis – we will have failed the next generation.
“Trailblazing UAE schools like Dubai International Academy Emirates Hills and GEMS
Legacy School, which have cultivated 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 solutions, and it’s time governments do so as well.”
Jill Huntley, Managing Director – Global Corporate Citizenship, at Accenture, said:
“Congratulations to Dubai International Academy Emirates Hills in the UAE on being
named among the Top 10 finalists for the World’s Best School Prize for Environmental
Action 2024. Your vital work brings hope that solutions can be found to some of the
greatest challenges we face today. Through the platform of the World’s Best School Prizes,
your solutions will now inspire countless others across the globe from the classrooms to
the administration.
“Accenture is proud to be a part of T4 Education’s initiative in empowering the next
generation to tackle global sustainability challenges by increasing access to and use of the
latest technologies and innovative practices.”
About the schools:
Dubai International Academy Emirates Hills, an independent kindergarten through
secondary school in Dubai, UAE, empowers students with programmes like
personalised learning pathways and project-based learning, driving community
change through culturally-responsive education and sustainability projects. The

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