Swedish firm inks pact for new global school

Manama

 Sweden-based international school operator and curriculum developer KEDTECH will run a new state-of -the-art school in Bahrain. It will be a K12 school catering to Bahrainis as well as expat students.

 The school will be constructed by Kooheji Contractors on a total land area of 30,000 square meters, located opposite the Diyar Homes neighbourhood close to the main entrance of Diyar Al Muharraq. The school has the capacity to enroll 3,000 students.

 It will be the first school in the new Al Safwa Group of schools and will be operated by Al Safwa in cooperation with KEDTECH. Leading urban developers Diyar Al Muharraq announced the signing of land sale agreement recently with Medad Real Estate Company, part of the Kooheji Group of companies in Bahrain, for the purpose of developing Al Safwa Private School within its premises.

The signing of agreement was held at Diyar Al Muharraq headquarters by in the presence of Maher Al Shaer, Chief Executive Officer of Diyar Al Muharraq and Abdul Ghaffar Al Kooheji, Board Chairman of Medad Real Estate Company.

 The school will provide a curriculum that combines the highest international standards and languages as provided in the Cambridge International Examinations, with Arabic language and literature and a social anchorage in Bahraini culture and values.

The development of curriculum and standards has already begun. Construction of the already designed school will start next month and the school is due to start functioning in September 2016.

 Elaborating the project, Odd Eiken, Chief Executive Officer of KEDTECH, said: “We operate 50 schools with more than 15,000 students and are active in Sweden, England, USA, India, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. All our activities are based on the conviction that 21st century schools should extensively use modern technology and they should provide both the highest international standards.”

Commenting that the curriculum also will give importance to local language, culture and values, he added, “In extensive preparatory work and discussions with the Kooheji Group, we have found that we share the same vision for education. We are very excited about the agreement we signed with them pertaining to operating the school and we look forward to putting in our best resources to create a state-of-the-art school for Bahrain and to become a role model for the region.”