Building a futurist vision for students
Originally published in Gulf Times on September 17, 2007
BRIGHT Future Pakistani School’s (BFPS) new purpose-built premises in the Abu Hamour area will welcome the senior students on September 23, said Abdul Rahman al-Meer, chairman, board of directors.
“Our own building is a natural outcome of our futuristic vision of offering the best in education and curricular activities to students,” he told Gulf Times.
Al-Meer, a banker, who heads the four-member board, said the school had recorded more than 200 new admissions for the current academic session. “This is a testament by parents who have put their trust in us, and proves that we have come a long way since beginning in a rented villa in April 1996.”
With 1,300 students and about 100 staff comprising the faculty and the administrative support, the school has emerged as the first South Asian expatriate school to offer two main educational packages - the Pakistani Matriculation & Intermediate (SSC, HSSC of Federal Board, Islamabad) exams and the British qualification of O/A levels (Cambridge, UK). Students are given an option to choose from either stream after class VIII.
He said the new purpose-built building will be used as classrooms and additional facilities for the senior school students from September 23. The state of the art educational facility has multi-storey building blocks with a total of 62 rooms, a spacious library and six fully equipped labs.
The building has a basement that has been constructed to house the administrative staff. An onsite teacher’s hostel is currently under-construction. The complex spreads over 7,000 sqm. The school is negotiating for more land to build playing grounds.
“The purpose-built facility has been designed with keeping in mind the every day features of school activities. We even have designated waiting areas for the parents,” alMeer said, while highlighting the salient features of the building complex.
“We can now look forward to accept almost double number of students,” said al-Meer.
The number of the school’s teaching staff has also reached an all-time high of 90, after the addition of new teachers from Pakistan recently, he said.
“Even though BFPS is privately managed with limited resources, we have not increased the tuition fees on the opening of our new building, which cost a couple of millions,” pointed out al-Meer.
“Our focus on upgrading the faculty constantly by organizing workshops pays off with students registering good results every year,” added al-Meer.
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