ĭavid Irish, Senior Vice President of Children’s Services at GEMS says, “The Children’s Services department represents a collaborative effort to offer comprehensive support that addresses various aspects of our students ’ development.” Saima Rana, Chief Education Officer of GEMS Education has introduced the new team as part of a five-year Education Strategy. In coordination with the Chief Education Officer and GEMS’ Senior Vice Presidents, the team will work for the benefit of students, bringing to bear the latest best practice execution and data across its wide spectrum of delivery.ĭr. The initiative combines expertise covering a wide range of provisions, including well-being, inclusion, safeguarding, GEMS For Life, Special Educational Needs (SEN), English as an Additional Language (EAL), and g ifted and t alented student focus. She believes passionately that education is the answer to eliminate poverty, inequality, and injustice, and has dedicated her career to the ideal of giving every child a world class education.The initiative combines experts in one team covering provisions such as well-being, inclusion, safeguarding and SEN to nurture all abilitiesĭubai, Nov 9, 2023: GEMS Education has launched Children’s Services department across all its 44 schools in the UAE and Qatar. Her latest project is to build an orphanage and technical skills college in a deprived area of Pakistan. She also supports several street schools in India, Pakistan and Afghanistan. She is a global ambassador for Girls Education initiatives and is a mental health ambassador for Refugee Mothers, where she has worked with a number of organisations to support language learning.

She is the trustee of charitable schools in Pakistan and Kashmir, and provides teacher training to schools located in slum areas in Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, Sudan and other parts of Africa. She has presented academic papers on Policy, ICT, Globalisation and Secondary Education at the Institute of Education, London, Trinity College, Dublin, The Knowledge Lab, London as well as at International conferences in Europe, the USA and China.ĭr Rana has also devoted herself to a variety of charitable educational projects, with a particular passion for building schools for poor children across the globe.

She has also served as a panel member and subject expert on several programmes and projects for the Department for Education (DfE) and the Office for Standards in Education for Children’s Services and Skills (Ofsted), providing guidance on quality assurance, delivery and professional standards.

With a background in school improvement in inner-city schools, and a PhD in Education, Dr Rana has worked in areas with high deprivation indicators throughout her career, combining traditional school improvement techniques with a commitment to collaboration between the local community and businesses in order to accelerate regeneration and raise standards.ĭr Rana has worked as a senior educational consultant for Cambridge Education Islington with a particular focus on Teaching and Learning, Raising Standards, ICT, Assessment for Learning, Curriculum, Change Management and Building Schools for the Future. Dr Rana is CEO/Principal of GEMS World Academy - Dubai, Chief Education Ambassador for the Varkey Foundation and Founding Trustee of The Shahnaz Foundation.

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