As the UK enters another strict lockdown and British schools close once again due to the continuing COVID-19 pandemic, it has been announced that UK A-Levels and GCSE examinations will not take place in Summer 2021.
The majority of private-school pupils in Dubai study a UK curriculum, with 106,773 students learning under the British system, followed by 73,990 students studying the Indian curriculum, according to 2020 Knowledge and human Development Authority (KHDA) figures.
Although schools remain open in the UAE, students and parents in the emirates’ British-curriculum schools have been left reeling by the question mark that this news places over their own academic futures.