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turf football ground, basketball and communication, collaboration, and
tennis/volleyball courts, and an ADMISSION & FEES creativity) of all students. The school
indoor physical education room. is also a member of the Common
“The distinguishing feature of Currently, Clarion School offers Ground Collaborative (CGC), a global
Clarion School is our ‘openness’. nursery to class V education with association of international schools
The grounds and buildings are open upper primary school (class VI) “working towards more teacher
and spacious; rooms are infused scheduled to start in September. and student empowerment through
with natural light through large Admission is open year-round for all hands-on, personal project-based
windows and wide hallways, and we classes. learning”. “From early childhood
use recyclable wood, bamboo and through to primary school, all our
other natural materials. But even Fees (per year): 43,000-76,500 dir- teaching-learning is experiential and
more than the infrastructure, we hams (Rs.8.6-15.3 lakh) project-based,” adds Pastore.
pride ourselves for having chosen For further information, email admis- With CS having speedily
our teachers from around the world sions@clarionschool.com or visit established an excellent reputation
with great care and diligence. They www.clarionschool.com within Dubai’s sophisticated upper
are committed to the teachers’ middle class community, and set to
vocation, child-friendly, caring and roll out its middle and senior schools
open to newest pedagogies that curriculum, incorporating globally over the next seven years, Pastore
ignite children’s curiosity about life best pedagogy innovations. For is optimistic about the future. “Our
and learning — in alignment with instance, the school’s curriculum teething pains are over and we will
our school motto: The Art of Igniting is aligned with the New York State be adding class VI in September
Curiosity,” says Pastore. Common Core +15 standards as 2021, and progressively establishing
Yet according to Pastore, this well as the US-based Partnership our middle and secondary schools
new greenfield primary school’s for 21st Century Learning which to ensure we are positioned to
key feature is its contemporary, accords prime importance to grow together with our parents
internationally benchmarked developing the 4Cs (critical thinking, community.”

University of Edinburgh, UK

With an academic tradition stretching back
in time to over 400 years, Scotland’s pride
hosts 13,000 international scholars from 160
countries among its 44,510 students

NCE UPON A TIME, BEST QUALITY HIGHER
education in Britain, and indeed the Common-
wealth, was synonymous with Oxford, Cambridge
Oand London universities. But in the millennium,
Scotland’s University of Edinburgh (UoE, estb.1583) has
emerged as a formidable academic competitor to Sassen-
ach higher education institutions of the south. According
to the QS World University Rankings 2020, UoE, which is
ranked #20 worldwide, is one of Europe’s most preferred
universities. With an academic tradition stretching back in
time over 400 years, Scotland’s pride hosts a massive con- UoE vista: formidable competitor
tingent of 13,000 international scholars from 160 countries
— among its 44,510 students. into surgery; Sir James Young Simpson, inventor of chloro-
Over the past four centuries, the faculty and alumni of form; surgeon Elsie Inglis; James Hutton, father of modern
this venerated varsity have played a major role in shaping geology; and novelists Sir Walter Scott, J.M. Barrie, Robert
world history. Among its most illustrious alumni are philos- Louis Stevenson, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
O
opher David Hume; Charles Darwin, author of the rigin of Like most higher education institutions worldwide, UoE
S p ecies; physicists Sir Edward Appleton and James Clerk has been under lockdown for the past seven months to
Maxwell; Lord Joseph Lister who introduced antiseptics check the spread of the raging Covid-19 pandemic. Teaching

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