Education in Bahrain

[1] The system was established in 1932 when the Bahraini government assumed responsibility for operating two pre-existing primary public schools for boys.

[6] Prior to the establishment of a public school in the country, Shia and Sunni students had limited interactions during their education.

The country's first Education Committee was established by several leading Bahraini merchants, headed by Shaikh Abdulla bin Isa Al-Khalifa, the son of the then-ruler of Bahrain Isa ibn Ali Al Khalifa, who acted as the de facto Minister of Education.

[3] The school was in fact the brainchild of Shaikh Abdulla, who suggested the idea after returning from post-World War I celebrations in England.

Due to financial constraints suffered by the Education Committee, the Bahraini government took control of the schools in 1930.

[citation needed] In October 2021, Al Hekma International School has agreed upon the Sharakah Agreement[9] with American University of Sharjah (AUS) to encourage students from varied socio-economic backgrounds to be considered for partial scholarships.

[1] The College of Health Sciences, established in 1976, offers various medical technology and nurses' training programs.

[1] The Hotel and Catering Training Center offers postsecondary vocational courses in management and culinary arts.

[1] Construction of AGU facilities, however, was delayed by the decline in oil revenues experienced by all GCC states in the mid-1980s.

[1] The first faculty, the College of Medicine, opened in the fall of 1989 and provided medical education for fifty-eight aspiring physicians.