Education in Bahrain

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Students at the University of Bahrain

GDP.[2]

The Ministry of Education is responsible for education in the country.

History

Al-Hidaya Al-Khalifia Boys school.

elementary school setup in 1899 in Manama by the Reformed Church in America, with the school's syllabus comprising English, Mathematics and the study of Christianity.[4] Leading merchants in the country sent their children to the school, which later became known as the American Mission School.[5] It was renamed Al Raja School
in 1980 and operates till the present day.

Parents who could afford to fund their children's studies often sent them to schools in

matams whereas Sunni students did from majlises although neither matam nor majlis were officially recognised as educational institutions in their own right.[7]

The Jafaria school in Manama, 1931.

Following the end of the

Minister of Education. The Education Committee was also responsible for managing the Al-Hidaya Boys school.[3] The school was in fact the brainchild of Shaikh Abdulla, who suggested the idea after returning from post-World War I celebrations in England.[8]

In 1926, a second public school for boys opened up in the capital city, Manama. Two years later, in 1928, the first public school for girls was established. Due to financial constraints suffered by the Education Committee, the Bahraini government took control of the schools in 1930.[3]

Government schools

village school
, circa 1937.

In the 1991–92 academic year, 99,348 students attended 129

public schools.[1] Education in the public system, which included six-year primary schools, three-year intermediate schools, and three-year secular secondary schools, is free.[1] Students receive transportation to and from school at no charge.[1] Almost all children in the six- to eleven-year-old age-group attend primary school, and about two-thirds of all twelve- to fourteen-year-olds are enrolled in intermediate schools.[1]

In the academic year of 2008/2009 the number of public classes in Bahrain ( including religious classes) are 4326, with the number of male students 62381 and female students 63233. with a distribution of 62172 in primary classes, 32327 in preparatory classes (junior high) and 31115 in secondary schools.[citation needed]

Private schools

Students of the Persian School in 1939.

In addition to the American Mission School, another foreign private school was opened in 1910; Al-Ittihad school, funded by the

Persian community of Bahrain.[6]

The French School of Bahrain

In addition to the public education system, there are forty-eight private and

St Christopher's School, which the Guardian has named as one of the eight best international schools in the world, the only school in the Middle East to make the list.[citation needed] 10 universities provide internationally recognized qualifications.[citation needed] Other notable schools includeBritish School of Bahrain, The Indian School and Sacred Heart School.[citation needed
]

In October 2021, Al Hekma International School has agreed upon the Sharakah Agreement[9] with American University of Sharjah (AUS) to encourage students from varied socio-economic backgrounds to be considered for partial scholarships.

Higher education

In 1927 the first group of Bahrainis to receive a university education enrolled at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon.[1] The first institution of higher education in Bahrain, the Gulf Polytechnic, was established in 1968 as the Gulf Technical College.[1] In 1984 Gulf Polytechnic merged with the University College of Art, Science, and Education (UCB), founded in 1979, to create a national university offering Bachelor of Arts and bachelor of science degrees.[1] During the 1991–92 academic year, more than 4,000 students, half of whom were women, studied at the University of Bahrain.[1]

Kingdom University was founded in 2001 and opened in Riffa in 2004.

In 2008 a new Bahrain Polytechnic opened on the University of Bahrain's old campus location at Isa Town.

Bahrain had three additional institutions of higher education in 1993.

physicians
. The projected completion date for the AGU campus is 2006; officials anticipate that AGU will accommodate 5,000 students annually, once the university becomes fully operational.

The AGU campus has been completed to contain a faculty of medicine, faculty of agriculture and Princess Jawhara of Saudi Arabia donated a centre for molecular biology & inherited disorders. Built right across the street from the campus to encourage the development of regional research in this issue.

Further liberalisation of the education sector has occurred in Bahrain. With new private universities being founded, the Quality Assurance Authority for Education and Training was created to ensure the quality of programs offered by the universities.

The 2010s saw the establishment of the British University of Bahrain in 2018 and the American University of Bahrain in 2019.

See also

References

  1. ^
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  2. ^ "Bahrain". CIA - The World Factbook. Retrieved 20 January 2013.
  3. ^ a b c d "History". Ministry of Education - Bahrain. Archived from the original on 16 August 2013. Retrieved 20 January 2013.
  4. OCLC 39391112.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link
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  5. ^ Gosselink, George. "Annual Report for the Arabian Mission for the Year 1934." Neglected Arabia, Vol VI. Oxford, pg 11.
  6. ^ a b Shirawi 1987, p. 60.
  7. ^ Shirawi 1987, p. 60-61.
  8. ^ Shirawi 1987, p. 61.
  9. ^ "AUS signs its first regional Sharakah agreement with Al Hekma International School in Bahrain". American University of Sharjah. 2021-10-07. Retrieved 2021-10-12.
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