In 1999, many people questioned our idea to establish Dubai Internet City in the desert. Two years ago, Amazon acquired the multi-billion dirham Souq.com and today, Uber acquired Careem for Dh11 billion. These giant companies flourished from the "desert" of Dubai.

The teachers and support staff played the U18 boys football team on Thursday. After a very enjoyable game the teachers took the victory 4-3. This was a great way to sign off the season with our grade 12 boys. #rwasports #rwacollaboration

This morning, RWA hosted the first ever Innoventures group wide BTEC meeting. Teachers from RWA, DIA and RIS collaborated and shared best practice ahead of our second SV visit on the 6th of May. #rwabtec #rwacollaboration #rwaibcp @teachBTEC

"A study into the Career-related programme (CP) shows that the CP has positive effects on students’ personal attitudes, such as professionalism and respect, and helps students to acquire a strong work ethic and collaborative skills." #IBCP Newsweek bit.ly/2Gz3PaF

Kick-start your career with a BTEC qualification. They open doors to rewarding career paths. Make a BTEC work for you. pear.sn/ddxk30otbqu #BTECWorks

Last week, some of our BTEC students went to visit the soon to be open Coca-Cola Arena to get ideas for a project in relationship marketing. What a venue this will be! @teachBTEC #rwabtec

We are very excited to announce that Raffles World Academy has received official confirmation from the International Baccalaureate regarding the approval to offer the IBCP from September! We cannot wait to welcome our first cohort! 😊 #rwaibcp

Congratulations to all our graduating class of 2019, especially our first ever BTEC graduates. #rwabtec #historymakers @teachBTEC

Struggling with written examinations? Feel more confident expressing yourself through assignments or presentations? The IB Career-related Pathway might be the right programme for you! We still have places open for September 😃 #rwaibcp #btecbusiness

This will be useful to our CP students who are choosing Block 5 as one of their subject choices #rwaibcp #choices

Can’t wait to get started! 😊 #rwaibcp

Good luck to all our Language Development students in their quest to become multi lingual! 🗣 #rwaibcp

Let’s make this year the year of inclusion Raffles World Academy

Our Grade 12 BTEC students visited Tommy Hilfiger in Mall of the Emirates on Tuesday and got an amazing insight into various aspects of the business such as recruitment, motivation and visual merchandising! Thank you for making us feel so welcome! #rwaBTEC #fieldtrip @teachBTEC

Our CP students got to experience their first BTEC field trip K9 Friends last week. They took away a lot that can be applied to both BTEC and Service Learning and also got to spend time with these beautiful dogs! 😍 IB CP @teachBTEC IBDP | Raffles World Academy

Our PPS students visited @EmiratesAcademy yesterday and got to experience a masterclass in the kitchen! Lots of evidence gathered for Personal Development in PSS and what a fantastic experience! We might have some future hoteliers on our hands 👨‍🍳IB CP RWA_Secondary

Our G12 BTEC students today held a very successful movie day for the grade 6 students. This was to reward them for successfully making the transition to secondary school. The BTEC students will use this event as part of their ‘Managing a Business Event’ assignment. @teachBTEC

Week one of work experience is almost completed for our G12 BTEC students. 👩‍💼👨‍💼💼 Pictured here are Asad, Reda and Fernando who are placed with the UREKA Group. Looking forward to hearing all our students experiences when they return. #rwaBTEC RWA_Secondary

Wow, look at the progress our Language Development students have made in just 3 months!! This is what LD is all about! Find a language you have always wanted to learn and go for it 🗣😃 Raffles World Academy IB CP #RWAibcp #RWAachievement Well done boys 👏🏼

A fantastic assembly.. so nice to see all of our seniors get the credit they deserve. Special congrats to all our BTEC graduands 👏🏼🎓 @teachBTEC