Dubai: All three schools in the city offering the Pakistani curriculum were rated unsatisfactory by the education authorities in school inspections.
There are 3,211 students at these schools.
Officials said that there are fundamental weaknesses in these schools in relation to basic resources, teaching quality and leadership.
"School owners need to invest significant amounts of time, resources and expertise to improve the education for these students," according to the Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA) report called Key Findings Indian and Pakistani School Inspection Results 2011-2012.
While two of the schools were rated unsatisfactory in all three rounds of school inspections so far, one school had an acceptable rating in the past two years which fell to unsatisfactory this year.
"We are saddened by the situation in the Pakistani schools," Jameela Al Muhairi, Chief of Dubai Schools Inspection Bureau (DSIB) at KHDA, said.
"Unsatisfactory schools will be taken out of the regular inspection cycle and will be visited every three months. We will give them our full support to help them improve."
"However, we know from our high-performing schools that partnership is at the heart of making progress," she added.
One striking feature of Pakistani schools is the positive desire of most students to learn and improve their lives through education, inspectors said. They noted all three schools have teachers with a strong commitment to improve.
"However, these teachers were rarely supported to do so," the report said.
In particular, the schools face significant challenges in recruiting leaders and skilled experienced teachers. Governance in these schools was ineffective, resources were lacking and leadership was weak, it was found.
Poorly developed systems for monitoring student attendance, poor communication with parents, overcrowded school buses, narrow curricula, poor or no support for those with special educational needs were some of the other shortcomings identified.
