The International Schools Market in the MENA Region

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MENA region growth trends 2015-2021

Key country data for the MENA region

©ISC Research June 2021

Extracts from ISC Research Commercial Market Intelligence Reports released during 2021

EdTech in the UAE

The right of all students to access learning, either exclusively or partially remotely, across the UAE has required an upgrade in edtech provision at almost every international school.

Most international schools now have established learning and communications platforms in place as well as strategies and tools for online learning in the future. When the schools were researched during 2021, the most popular platforms for virtual classrooms were Microsoft Teams and ZOOM with Google Classrooms following closely behind. The most common learning platforms included: Managebac, Seesaw, Engage and iSAMS.

International schools are looking for ways to manage student and teacher wellbeing through technology. When asked about how the use of technology in international schools is changing, school leaders reported using more responsive and personalised learning and assessment or increasing virtual reality and artificial intelligence provision within the classroom.

EdTech in Egypt

Since the emergence of the coronavirus pandemic, education technology has had to be implemented rapidly in many international schools in Egypt. Although schools have managed the expected challenges, they did not fully appreciate difficulties associated with poor bandwidth provision and the resistance from locals to online learning. As such, several schools reported difficulties getting students to engage online learning during the lockdown. Because parents value classroom-based learning and fail to recognise the utility of online learning, schools have received little support from families. Anecdotally, it was hypothesised that this lack of support was due to asynchronous teaching and learning; schools that were able to offer synchronous learning seemed to have better rates of student engagement.