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3. Investments House
Investments House is a leading investment management organization in the MENA region. Located
in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, the commercial hub of the Middle East, Investments House offers
and manages investment vehicles for individuals, institutional investors, partners and international
clients.
With our proven track record and expertise, Investments House has generated over AED 2.4 billion
since December 2006. Only a select few investment management organizations have matched our
success. Today, Investments House is recognized as a premier developer and leader in the field of
venture capitalism based on our outstanding growth and performance. We credit our success to
consistently following our core values of integrity, honesty, transparency, superior customer service
and dedicated commitment by our staff. We demand and demonstrate the highest code of conduct
by the board of directors and our associates.
Our mission is to lead in the investment management industry and to build strong broad and on-
going relationships and strategic alliances with our investors and partners.
Our Objective is to build strong corporate identity, diversify portfolios, form strategic alliances and
establish enduring relationships with our investors and partners.
4. About Sharjah
Sharjah is the third largest emirate with total land area around 2,600 sq km with diverse geography.
This emirate experienced real progress during time period of H.H.Sheikh Sultan bin Mohammad Al
Qassimi. The discovery of Mubarak oil field near island of Abu Musa in 1971 also played great role in
progress and development of this emirate. Today Sharjah is known as cultural and sports capital of
UAE. It is also world famous for its cricket stadiums and thrilling one day international cricket
matches. Due to low crime rate and excellent accommodation facilities this city has made it world
renowned and has drawn attention of sports lover across the globe.
Sharjah displays a perfect blend of old and modern life style. This city possesses a modern and well
equipped port at Khorfakkan that provide unmatched services and facilities for the ships don’t need
to enter in Gulf. City has some of the world famous waterfronts hotel, green gardens, lake facing
buildings and restaurants. Other attractions include modern and traditional souks that offer good
bargains to buyers. Above all, this emirate has well maintained museums there you can even check
80 million old fossils.
Sharjah also showed great potential in construction and property development projects. During
recent year this emirate has been experiencing huge rise in demand of accommodation
places including apartments and furnished apartments. This has also attracted local and foreign
investors to invest in property market of Sharjah. Despite this fact that real estate Dubai is leading
the property market of UAE, Sharjah also offers really exciting and promising investments
opportunities in construction and property business.
This emirate is a much economical place to relocate as compare to Dubai. This city has showed rapid
progress in different sectors like construction and development. You can find numerous glittering
skyscrapers along the costal line of this emirate.
Sharjah is opening its property market to foreign investment for the first time as expatriates are
granted the right to buy homes.
Leases of up to 100 years will be granted as the emirate benefits from spillover property demand
from neighbouring Dubai.
For the first time in its history, the Sharjah government has passed a law enabling expatriates from
any country in the world to buy property in the emirate providing they hold a UAE residence visa.
Expatriates will be able to own property in the emirate on long leases but not land, government
officials said . Investment will be restricted to new investment areas on the edge of the city centre.
Initially only plots will be made available to sub-developers to build apartment and villas.
The first new development to offer the long leases will be Tilal City, a 25 million square feet
development on Emirates Road close to the Al Dhaid Interchange
Officials said the new rules would create “new cluster cities” outside central Sharjah which would
reduce traffic and congestion in the main city centre.
This is a historic milestone for Sharjah. Traditionally, international investors have focused their
attention on Dubai and Abu Dhabi, but this move will open up a new market, to investors residing in
the UAE.
5. Based on the number of gated community feasibility studies that Cluttons has been commissioned
to undertake, in close proximity to Sharjah International Airport, we expect to see similar
developments launched in the short to medium term. The current shortage of these types of
communities is causing a real demand from families residing in Sharjah, but also from families who
want to relocate from Dubai in search of affordability.
The new rules are the latest move in attempts to open up Sharjah’s more reasonably priced real
estate market to expatriates, taking advantage of interest from buyers no longer able to afford
Dubai prices.
Real estate rules in Sharjah had prevented anyone other than UAE nationals from owning real
estate, but were first relaxed after the global financial crisis to allow Arabs from the GCC to buy
homes.
Education Growth in UAE
Education regulators are anticipating hundreds of thousands of new students to be enrolled in
private schools by 2020.
With the number of private school students in the GCC expected to triple in the next seven years,
regulators from Abu Dhabi and Dubai have cited the need for hundreds of new schools to
accommodate the increase.
By 2020 the number of students in private schools are expected to reach 280,000, which means an
annual growth of 5 per cent
The private education sector in Abu Dhabi caters to more than 60 per cent of the total student
population in the emirate – a quarter of whom are Emirati – and the sector is growing across the
UAE.
Private education has witnessed the most growth with students, so there are investment
opportunities in private education across the UAE.
Dubai has also experienced growth, with a 7 per cent annual increase in student enrolments in
private schools. If the trend continues, the number of students will jump from 225,000 to 360,000 by
2020.
That is a 60 per cent increase from the existing student population. The UAE needs 110 new schools
by 2020 and it is one of the highest growth areas, followed by higher education.
The UAE’s private education market is about the same size as India’s and China’s combined. That’s
just a sense of the scale of what we’re dealing with here. The current number of students in private
education in the GCC is predicted to triple by 2020. The rest of the world is looking at the region with
great interest.
Western-branded higher education institutions in the country are growing by 15 per cent a year,
with the UAE hosting 37 international branch campuses – the highest number in the world.
According to a study, the UAE has become a preferential educational destination for students,
ranking 15th in terms of quality of education in a World Economic Forum (WEF) list of 148 countries.
Between 2007 and 2012, the number of primary school students in UAE private institutions rose
from 1,897,000 to 2,654,000, a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6.9 per cent. The number of
students at UAE educational institutions, predominantly in Abu Dhabi and Dubai, are increasing
6. partially due to families from other Middle East nations migrating due to instability in their home
country.
Private School Growth in Sharjah
More than Dh1 billion has been invested in private education in Sharjah.
The assistant director general at Sharjah Chamber of Commerce and Industry has said that there
were 140 private schools worth Dh1.26bn.
All investors in the private education sector are urged to turn to innovative ideas that would further
improve the standard of education in the emirate. This is an excellent opportunity to have
businessmen and educators interact and share ideas on the best way to boost education, and give a
brighter future to the children.
Canadian Private School
A Canadian Private School curriculum follows the Alberta Program of Study in coordination with the
UAE Ministry of Education. Alberta Education’s high quality standards of instruction suit the needs
and requirements of UAE’s Ministry of Education regulations. Alberta Education strongly promotes
trilingual education and thus responds to the demands of our multicultural, multilingual school.
Canadian Private School grants Alberta high school diplomas to students based on a credit system.
To complete senior high, students must be awarded 100 credits. Students are awarded credits for
each course they complete with satisfactory results. In addition, Grade 12 students must write and
pass diploma examinations in core subject areas to graduate. Diploma examinations are provincially
administered and account for 50 percent of the students’ final grade in the course.
Alberta’s High School diploma is recognized across North America and throughout the world. High
school graduates have the opportunity to continue their education at Alberta’s fine post secondary
institutions or to attend some of the most prestigious universities and colleges in the world.
Alberta Program Subjects: English Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, English Social Studies,
Physical Education, Art and Music, Health, Drama, Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
and French.
UAE Requirements: Arabic, Islamic Studies and Arabic Social Studies are taught in accordance to the
UAE Ministry of Education specifications.
7. Why Canadian Education
The most important question any parent considering a school for their child would ask is this – what
is so special about Canadian education? The answer is deceptively simple. The essential goal of the
Canadian teacher in the Canadian school is to educate students so that they have learned to learn!
That means that students become increasingly capable at using their developing academic and
intellectual talents to analyze, synthesize and problem solve. Certainly facts are important but the
ability to use knowledge gained and skills developed to deal with new school and life challenges is
essential. In effect Canadian education teaches students to think and to apply their learning in
effective ways to novel situations. It is this fundamental ability that makes students with a Canadian
education so successful in post-secondary schools and in their adult life.
There are, of course, other features of Canadian education worth acknowledging. Learning often
takes place co-operatively and in activity-based ways. That means that the teacher provides students
with information and certain skills and then challenges them to develop their learning further
through related and increasingly demanding activities. Simply memorizing factual information and
then doing nothing with it is a waste of student time and energy.
Parent involvement in student learning is also very important. Parents are expected to talk to their
sons and daughters on a daily basis about school. Where parents do not understand what the school
is trying to accomplish or have a concern, they are expected to call and then visit the school to clear
things up. It is often said that Canadian schools, do not just accept students – they enroll families!
Student learning is always most effective when the home-school partnership is strong.
Finally, Canadian education is about the whole child. Students are not simply empty vessels to be
filled with facts and figures. They are unique individuals who are learning and developing every day
as they move from childhood to adulthood. Canadian schools are concerned about each student’s
physical, emotional and social development as well as their performance as learners. Teachers
engage their students in a caring and supportive way – not as friends but as adults concerned about
their total development.
Canadian education has been judged internationally to be of the highest quality. The Canadian
School in Sharjah now brings that educational quality to the students of Sharjah.
Investment Opportunity
The new Canadian School in Sharjah offers a full Canadian instructional curriculum managed by a
very experienced Canadian Principal and delivered by Canadian trained, certificated and experienced
teachers. Our student performance expectations, teaching materials, instructional strategies and
student management practices are the same as those you will find in any Canadian school. We
would be a Canadian school not just in name but in practice.
Canadian School in Sharjah are proud to be the first Canadian school in Sharjah and are committed
to providing an educational experience for each of our students which will challenge them on
intellectual, social and personal levels. We expect much from our students and their families and will
provide the demanding learning environment which supports those expectations.
8. The Canadian School in Sharjah also appreciates that we are a school which has been welcomed into
an Arabic country with a predominantly Muslim population. We have committed enthusiastically to
provide students with Arabic Language and Islamic Studies programs of the highest quality delivered
by certificated and experienced teachers who are respected members of the school’s academic staff.
The student – parent – school partnership for learning is at the heart of Canadian School in Sharjah’s
efforts as a school to nurture educational accomplishment. We will succeed based as much the
strength of that partnership as on the strength of our instructional programming.
This school is first of its kind offshore Canadian school in Sharjah, which allows the graduates to
enter various Universities in Ontario, Canada, without having to do any entrance assessments.
This is a school which will be known for its academic rigor, focus on each learner as a unique
individual and its emphasis on student engagement in their own learning. Our students will come to
understand the shared responsibility we all have for the further development of a community of
nations tied together by a commitment to tolerance, justice and equality of opportunity. We will
graduate more than educated young people – we will graduate young people well-prepared make a
difference in our challenged world.
The Canadian School of Sharjah is surrounded by thousands of residential areas which makes it a
very demanding and appealing school within this community. It is at a very close proximity to
Sharjah Airport and Sharjah National Park and is easily accessible through various highways including
Al Dhaid Road, Sheikh Mohammad bin Zayed Road and Emirates Road.
