Cavendish Maxwell takes an interest in school investments

The property consultancy Cavendish Maxwell is hitting the books — it has set up an education department to assist investors planning to build school assets.

At the end of the last academic year, Dubai had 173 private schools with a capacity for nearly 300,000 students. The KHDA (Knowledge and Human Development Authority) has made it a goal of increasing this number by 20 per cent by the academic year 2019-20.

A further 10 schools are likely to open between now and end 2018. Since 2014, 40 new schools have opened in Dubai, of which 15 opened in September 2016 alone. Source