UAE Government’s AED10 billion investment in education fuelling high demand for quality teaching professionals
Eteach International, part of the UK’s leading online teacher job board and recruitment business – Eteach.com, held an official opening of its new office in Dubai Internet City today – the company’s first Middle East office completes an impressive global network of offices and agents in London, Melbourne, Toronto, Hong Kong and now Dubai.
Eteach International is striving to become the global leader in education recruitment, serving schools, colleges and teaching professionals worldwide.
The business is based on the experience of their dedicated team; an exciting combination of industry specialists from the world of education and recruitment, who are able to provide high quality consultancy services to both teachers and schools. Eteach will support clients by sourcing candidates with the required skill set, and ensure that educational professionals can find quality roles within their partner schools.
Eteach will operate as Eteach International [www.eteachinternational.com] in this region and becomes the first specialist education job board and recruitment service of its kind, in the Middle East, dedicated solely to the teaching profession. Eteach’s mission is to attract quality candidates, cost-effectively and quickly, ensuring efficient time-to-hire, while providing a host of tools and support so that schools can maximise their recruitment budgets.
With the education sector becoming one of the UAE’s high growth sectors – as highlighted by the Federal Government’s 2014-2016 budget allocation of AED9.8 billion for schools and higher education – Eteach International’s entry into the market is certainly timely and will further increase the options available to both new and existing schools. With competition for qualified teachers in the UAE increasing, schools need to promote their offering; not only to parents and pupils they need to have an excellent employer brand to ensure they attract the best in teaching talent.
In Dubai today, to officially open the new office with the UAE-based team, Eteach Founder and Global CEO, Paul Howells said:
“We are pleased to be bringing our experience and the Eteach concept into an exciting and developing market. We are confident that by offering a cost-effective platform and relevant solutions, Eteach International offers schools the chance to promote their career opportunities, coupled with the assurance of having access to over one million quality, registered candidates, from our database,” added Howells.
“It has been well documented that we are heading for a global teacher shortage. Eteach International can help schools stay ahead of the game by building long term multi-channel solutions, online and offline, that will enhance their schools recruitment strategy and allow them to succeed in this more demanding marketplace.”