Over the past decade, online schooling has quickly popularised across Saudi Arabia. Today, thousands of parents send their children to esteemed online schools in Riyadh, Jeddah, Dammam, Medina, Mecca, Al Khobar, and Taif, among other notable cities, towns, and villages in Saudi Arabia.
As a parent, you may wonder what led to this transition. While online schooling appeals to many students owing to its flexibility, that’s not the driving force for its popularity in Saudi Arabia. The driving force, instead, is the equitable, fair treatment students receive, especially the lack of discrimination between boys and girls.
Conventional Saudi Arabian schools often don’t allow girls to receive an education. Moreover, students are bullied by their peers and often verbally, emotionally, and even physically abused by their own teachers. In early 2018, a Saudi Arabian private elementary school teacher was fired for being physically abusive toward his student. And in other instances, young girls and women have been banned from going to school or criticised for wanting to pursue an education.
In this blog, we’ll offer a closer look at the benefits of online schooling for young girls in Saudi Arabia. What makes this schooling model more suitable for girls? Should you consider choosing the online learning system for your daughters? Keep reading.
1. Equal Treatment
For starters, online schools prioritise equal treatment. We recommend choosing an online British international school with at least 15 years of experience. At Cambridge Home School Online, we have over 20 years of experience in teaching students across Saudi Arabia, both girls and boys. Our MA/MSc/PhD qualified subject specialist teachers treat every student equally.
Girls are encouraged to take up more space in class, express their thoughts without hesitation, participate in class activities and presentations, and be an equal part of the class. There’s absolutely no discrimination between students based on skin colour, ethnicity, caste, religion, etc.
Girls are uplifted, encouraged, and motivated to do their best. They’re not pushed to unhealthy limits or bullied into performing better. Instead of resorting to abuse, we engender academic excellence by using an independent Cambridge homeschool curriculum, keeping the student-teacher ratio low, and maintaining a comprehensive online repository of online resources.
Our esteemed faculty, top-notch resources, and approach to online learning collectively help our Saudi Arabian girls succeed inside and beyond the classroom.
2. Safety
Compared to conventional Saudi Arabian schools, online schools offer greater safety. In 2002, fifteen young girls were killed at an all-girls school in Mecca. The brutal fire left ripples across the entire nation. Since then, girls have been physically targeted for going to school/taking an interest in acquiring an education.
Saudi Arabia parents are unanimously worried about sending their daughters to conventional schools owing to the lack of safety and protection. Online schooling has been the most effective solution. Girls can attend classes from the safety and comfort of their homes.
3. A Quality Education
Today, the most prestigious online British schools in Saudi Arabia are recognised for providing a quality British education to students. At CHS Online, we use an interdisciplinary, well-balanced, and independent Cambridge curriculum to help girls secure top grades. Our independent curriculum covers greater academic breadth and depth, enabling Saudi Arabian girls to become well-rounded students.
By teaching our students a balanced, rigorous, and advanced curriculum, we help them achieve immense academic success. CHS Online’s girls attend some of the most prestigious universities across the globe, including Cambridge, Oxford, Yale, Stanford, Columbia, Berkeley, John Hopkins, Princeton, MIT, Cornell, Duke, Northwestern, Brown, Carnegie Mellon, and NYU, among others. We couldn’t be more proud of their success.
4. A Diverse Learning Experience
The learning experience should always be fun, exciting, and diverse, not restrictive, tedious, and boring. As an institution, we offer a rich, diverse learning experience to our students, especially our girls. They enjoy exciting activities, exercises, presentations, games, and challenges. We often bring guest teachers and speakers on board. As students listen to diverse voices from across the globe, they develop new ideas and broaden their horizons.
Our teachers are continually impressed by the commitment and growth-oriented mindset of Saudi Arabian girls. They maintain the utmost focus during their lessons, revise diligently, and achieve incredible grade progression. In June 2021, 86% of our IGCSE students secured A*s and As in their target subjects. 83% of our A Level students secured two As and a B or higher, as requested by top universities. Moreover, all students who applied received offers from some of the best universities across the globe.
As we maintain high levels of academic excellence across the board, we’re excited to help Saudi Arabian girls continually outdo themselves.
5. Career Progression
Online schooling is recognised for its focus on skill-building. At CHS Online, we develop a wide range of soft and hard skills in students, including teamwork, respect, organisation, time management, and empathy, among others. As students become young professionals and start their careers, these skills continue to come in handy.
We’re proud of helping Saudi Arabian girls become successful young women who thrive in their careers. Our teachers often hear from students enjoying stellar careers at some of the leading companies across Saudi Arabia, the UK, the US, Europe, and across the globe.
About the Author
The author is an education specialist at Cambridge Home School Online. As one of the most experienced and prestigious online British schools across the globe, CHS Online is trusted by thousands of parents.
The institution offers four competitive homeschooling programs: Primary Prep/Key Stage 2 (ages 7 to 10), Lower School/Key Stage 3 (ages 11 to 13), Upper School/IGCSEs (ages 14 to 16), and Sixth Form/AS & A-Levels (ages 17 to 19).
Parents interested in high school online learning, school options for working parents, secondary schools in the UK, or primary school programs can contact the school for enrolment.
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