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Foundation Gateway - The Foundation Year programme for Abu Dhabi Education Council (ADEC)The Foundation Gateway offers an attractive, secure environment in which students can flourish and grow, developing confidence and ‘life skills’ as they raise their competence in English language, IT and Entrepreneurial skills. This project – which delivers a full-time training programme of over 20 hours per week per student to students in Al Ain and Abu Dhabi – was established in 2007 within a timeframe of 6 weeks. It involved sourcing, fitting out and networking a dedicated teaching facility, recruiting staff, writing a curriculum, and enrolling and inducting over 200 students. In 2008, as a result of the high quality program delivered in 2007, Nord Anglia became the sole provider of the Foundation Program within the Abu Dhabi Emirate. The success of the project is indicative of Nord Anglia’s abilities to mobilise complex projects at a national level and achieve results quickly and effectively. The Nord Anglia curriculum is centred on a cross curricular ‘project-based’ learning environment. Core skills are applied to ‘real life’ situations, within an overall framework that is contextualised to students’ experiences, aspirations and life skills. Students are viewed as individuals, each with different career and further education pathways. High quality curriculum design is a key factor behind the success of Nord Anglia’s Foundation Gateway programme. The programme has been well received by our client ADEC, who commented that Nord Anglia’s “Holistic approach to the foundation year is much more likely to succeed” as “the programme offers a model that goes beyond the traditional Foundation Programme”. ELS, the monitoring agency for the programme has stated that “The experience of the Provider and staff in delivering the Foundation Program for a second year has been integral to the continued successful development of the academic achievements of the participants.” Your Contact |