About Us

New Century Education is a non-traditional, transformative education provider delivering world-class experience, and developing learner’s global citizen deeply rooted in their local identity.

New Century Education (NCE) is headquartered in Abu Dhabi, UAE and established by one of the Middle East’s largest institutional investment groups, ADCG. NCE proudly educates over 8,000 students across eight campuses located in Al Ain and Abu Dhabi, supported by a diverse team of 850 staff members, with additional school projects planned for the future.

Our company creates safe, dynamic and inspiring learning environments.

New Century Education provides positive, safe and inspiring learning environments to stimulate curiosity in children to learn, in order to develop confident and responsible individuals who aspire to achieve their full potential. New Century Education intends that all children should enjoy their learning and become independent life-long learners by transforming the education system through the implementation of personalized and self-paced learning.

This allows for the detection of individual talents early and to discover and accelerate students' interests, and on the other hand, to help remediate students who need the support by providing them with a solid foundation to build on by creating an atmosphere in which everyone is equal, and all achievements are celebrated, with the support of the strong and positive relationships cemented between the schools and the students' families, especially the parents.

  • We are committed to inclusivity and ensuring that people of differing abilities are engaged and are connected to the goals and objectives of the whole and wider society. We seek to offer a nurturing and personalized approach to education which is flexible and innovative enough to meet the diverse needs of individuals, values the contributions of all and which enables every member of the school community to reach their full potential. To achieve this, students are encouraged to be aspirational, to be inspired and to thrive. We provide high quality learning opportunities in a safe, creative and stimulating environment that promotes school connectedness, wellbeing, resilience and raises self-esteem.

  • Our ultra-modern teaching methodologies and dynamic learning models follow common core standards to recognize the individual strengths and abilities of each student. Our schools provide the structure, skills and support to shape the minds of the next generation of critical thinkers, global citizens and world leaders, and to provide a holistic, evidence-based education to a dynamic and growing community of students.

  • As New Century Education's partner in curriculum delivery, Alef Education also works hand in hand with teacher professional development coaches to identify enrichment and intervention opportunities to drive mastery-based learning for students to reach their potential. Our model embraces all stakeholders of the learning community including, teachers, students, parents, and school principals. Alef Education employs an advanced Al-driven platform that applies big data technologies to identify students' levels and interests and to track and monitor their learning progress.

  • Our student-centric approach allows us to provide a high-quality, engaging and inclusive education to all of our school communities. We seek to maximize every student’s potential to make sure that they are ready to thrive in a complex and changing world and make rapid and sustained progress from their starting points.

    Our teaching and learning approaches empower students to build on their interests, focus on their academic, social and personal growth, to ensure that they embrace national identity and significant cultural values and enable them to become future-ready and independent life-long learners.

Deep Learning Competencies

    • Communication designed for audience and impact

    • Message advocates a purpose and makes an impact

    • Reflection to further develop and improve communication

    • Voice and identity expressed to advance humanity

    • Economic and social entrepreneurialism

    • Asking the right inquiry questions

    • Pursuing and expressing novel ideas and solutions

    • Leadership to turn ideas into action

    • Evaluating information and arguments

    • Making connections and identifying patterns

    • Meaningful knowledge construction

    • Experimenting, reflecting, and taking action on ideas in the real world

    • Proactive stance toward life and learning to learn

    • Grit, tenacity, perseverance and resilience

    • Empathy, compassion and integrity in action

    • A global perspective

    • Commitment to human equity and well-being through empathy and compassion for diverse values and worldviews

    • Genuine interest in human and environmental sustainability

    • Solving ambiguous and complex problems in the real world to benefit citizen

    • Working interdependently as a team

    • Interpersonal and team-related skills

    • Social, emotional, and intercultural skills

    • Managing team dynamics and challenges