Inspiring growth every step

Inspire brilliance, build character, and create pathways for lifelong learning.

ACES stands where heritage meets innovation. Founded in Qatar and built over three decades, we have grown from a single pioneering enterprise into a global education group, operating across schools, universities and professional learning institutions.

Today our family of institutions reaches from Doha to the UK and beyond. It includes the Doha British Schools, City University Qatar and Qatar Skills Academy in Qatar, together with the distinguished Glenalmond College and Craigclowan School in the UK. Different in age, setting and character, they are united by a single conviction: that education, done well, changes lives.

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Our Purpose

We believe education is humanity's most powerful investment, and that every learner deserves the opportunity to realise their potential. That belief shapes everything we do, from the classrooms of our own schools to the institutions we help others to build.

It is why we hold ourselves to a single standard wherever we work: care for the individual, challenge that stretches, and a clear sense of purpose in all of it.

We create meaningful pathways
for lifelong learning.

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A Model Built on Three Pillars

At ACES, strong education and a sound business are one discipline. The standards we hold produce the results that families choose and owners value, and that value lets us invest in better education. Our model rests on three pillars.

Institutions We Operate

For the investors and owners who hold them, we take on the leadership and running of established schools and universities, as we do at Glenalmond College and Craigclowan in the United Kingdom. The standards we set in our own institutions apply in full, and we answer for the leadership, curriculum and results that follow, wherever in the world the opportunity sits.

Institutions We Improve

We take on schools that need to raise their standards and bring the leadership, curriculum, safeguarding and oversight that turn performance around, and we build new provisions where families need it. For an owner, this protects and grows the value of the asset. For the students inside, it changes what school can give them and where they can go next.

From the Doha British School's international campuses in Qatar to Glenalmond College and Craigclowan in the UK our schools combine academic ambition with genuine care, preparing young people not just to succeed, but to lead.

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