Prepared by teachers for teachers, UKS will offer learnpremium in the Middle East to provide a comprehensive range of high-quality curriculum materials designed to maximize the benefits of teaching and learning using digital content in the classroom. It offers about 75,000 pages of motivating and engaging resources to save teachers time preparing lessons. It also helps explain difficult concepts and supports revision and reinforcement.

Ms. Nada El-Marji, UKS Sales and Marketing Director, commented, "Incorporating ICT in the classroom has been a slow but steady process across schools in the Middle East, but with a potential to grow rapidly. The challenge is to transform teaching and learning in schools to enable learners to construct their own knowledge and develop their talents in effective and powerful ways".

"With a commitment to education, UKS found in learnpremium the ideal partner to tackle this challenge by providing educational products that meet teachers' needs and support them in using ICT in the classroom."

Learnpremium supports a wide range of subjects for the whole curriculum, from foundation through to post-sixteen. All learnpremium content comes with accompanying teachers' notes to help with lesson planning and ideas. There is also a test centre to help teachers build their own tests for different subjects.

"This is an exciting time for the Guardian's learnpremium. Our partnership with UKS will provide schools in the Middle East with the opportunity to access one of the broadest and deepest collections of first-rate digital teaching and learning resources. Already used by over 5,000 schools in the United Kingdom, we look forward to working with UKS to grow our community of users and to enable more teachers and learners to take advantage of the educational opportunities afforded by the deployment of interactive digital content", said Lucy Haire, head of Learn at the Guardian.