MEA UAE Business Awards 2017

42 MEA MARKETS / UAE BUSINESS AWARDS 2017 , Masterminds Education offers a pioneering approach to early years education in theMiddle East. We profile this innovative and dynamic education specialist to learnmore. Best Early Years Education Provider 2017 There is widespread consensus that the global education system is broken with a growing disparity between the skills taught in schools and those required in the market place. However, the challenge is even more severe. The world is on the brink of the next ‘industrial revolution.’ This generation’s children will grow up in a world of unprecedented disruption and uncertainty. Not only will they require capabilities for jobs that do not yet exist but no one can accurately predict what these jobs will be or what specific skills they will require. How do we then create an education system to prepare our children for such an unpredictable future? Can we successfully create a system that empowers children with enhanced comprehension, tremendous curiosity and a love of learning to create a virtuous cycle that will support their success and happiness no matter what the future holds? Masterminds’ vision is to transform education for the 21st century. Masterminds was created by parents who could not accept the status quo for their own child. This triggered a global quest to find the most pioneering thinking in childhood development. After researching numerous options all over the world, they finally came across a globally renowned institute that has been a pioneer in childhood development for over 60 years, and whose founders include Nobel prize laureates. After walking the grounds of their on- campus school and seeing these amazing, happy and kind 4, 5 and 6 year olds all of whom could read, do maths, talk about the great artists of the world, speak three languages, play the violin, do gymnastics and have a love of learning that they had never seen before, they knew that they had found something extraordinary. Masterminds developed an exclusive partnership with the institute for the Middle East, Africa and South Asia and started by launching its early years concept in Dubai. Masterminds Nursery & Kindergarten, offers enrichment programs that integrate a mother’s traditional wisdom with 60 years of leading-edge research in child development to create intellectual, physical and social excellence, in children age eighteen months to six years. The establishment is the only one of its kind in the Middle East region to offer its pioneering learning methodology that both nurtures and unveils the genius within every child. Each of Mastermind’s enrichment programs are conducted in an active and joyous learning environment, catered to the individual learning styles of each child. The programs enable each child to develop a love for learning, a trait that carries forward from childhood into adult life. The Masterminds programs include English, French, and Arabic language immersion, learning to play the violin, gymnastics and swimming, as well as enrichment programs that will ensure all children can read fluently, do maths and have exceptional knowledge, physical and social awareness, by the age of six. These have been proven to be the building blocks of a strong, well-rounded childhood – and beyond, into a successful adult life. UA170021 Encouraged and guided by the principle of a child’s natural instinct to learn, and a child’s early years have been identified as the years most crucial to a child’s learning foundation; children who are introduced to this specialized methodology have proven to develop their intelligence, physical and social skills at a much-improved rate. Commenting on the award, Tania Siddiqi, Director of Masterminds Education said: “The Masterminds team is deeply grateful to be awarded Best Early Years Education Provider. We were even more thrilled to learn that we were nominated by one of the families who attend our school and feel strongly about what we do. This award reaffirms our commitment to continue to invest in our offering and our people, and to transform the outcomes that parents expect from an early years education.” Speaking about Masterminds’ expansion plans, Mrs. Siddiqi went on to say: “The award also gives us a renewed sense of purpose to expand into the primary and secondary years. The upcoming Masterminds Primary School will take our early years offering to the next level, offering continuity to our students to further develop their enhanced capabilities. It will be a next- generation school concept that has not been previously created in Dubai or anywhere else. It is designed to cater to parents with ambitious expectations for their children – those who see them as the leaders, innovators and game changers of tomorrow.”