Education in United Arab Emirates

  • UAE to standardise national school system

    UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, 2017/09/08 The 'homogenous framework' will generate graduates that meet international standards and national expectations, said Sheikh Mohammed, UAE Prime Minister. The UAE launched sweeping reforms to standardise the national education sector, Monday. The Ministry of Education and the Abu Dhabi Education Council, ADEC launched plans to consolidate all systems of education, inclunding curricula, school operations, policies and courses across the UAE’s public and private schools.

  • Higher earning Why a university degree is worth more in some countries than others

    AFGHANISTAN, 2016/12/11 A university education may expand your mind. It will as well fatten your wallet. Data from the OECD, a club of rich nations, show that graduates can expect far better lifetime earnings than those without a degree. The size of this premium varies. It is greatest in Ireland, which has a high GDP per chief and rising inequality. Since 2000 the unemployment rate for under-35s has swelled to 8% for those with degrees – but to additional than 20% for those without, and nearly 40% for secondary school drop-outs. The country’s wealth presently goes disproportionately to workers with letters next their names.

  • Dubai's GEMS says to open Indian school in Abu Dhabi

    INDIA, 2015/12/09 GEMS Education has announced the launch of GEMS United Indian School in Abu Dhabi which will open to students from KG1 to Grade 10 for the 2016-2017 academic year. The school will further expand its capacity in the following years, inclunding extend to Grades 11 and 12, the education provider said in a statement. George Mathew, principal, GEMS United Indian School, said: “We are excited about the new school and know that we will be able to build upon the track record by presently created by GEMS CBSE schools in Abu Dhabi and the UAE.

  • Emirati students hope to transform the classroom with bluetooth smart pen invention

    UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, 2015/11/26 Three Emirati female students have invented a smart pen that can convert any wall into an interactive board. The girls, Madia Humaid, Shaikha Jumma and Noor Jawdat from the Sumaya bin Khayat High School for Girls in Ajman, explained to Khaleej Times that the pen works with battery and tiny wires that produce infrared lights. The pen can be connected to laptops via bluetooth, which again detects the pen's movements. The pen/interactive board is yours for a cool Dh300, "and does work worth Dh3,000", according to the girls, who developed the incomparable pen.

  • Academic choice are driving expansion in Dubai’s private university system

    UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, 2015/07/19 Rising student numbers and a broader range of academic choice are driving expansion in Dubai’s private university system; however, institutions are being forced to tackle issues such as affordable student accommodation to drive further increase. Institutions based in Dubai’s major higher education hub, the Dubai International Academic City (DIAC), are seeing student numbers swell. Enrolments in the 2014/2015 academic year were up 20% year-on-year, according to data issued in April by DIAC. In total, the zone’s student body grew to additional than 24,000. “These increases can be due attributed to a series of student recruitment and sourcing initiatives ... in the last 2 years,” stated DIAC.

  • Education In The Middle East

    BAHRAIN, 2015/05/03 Despite a significant improvement in formal education in the Middle East during the past few decades, the gap between education and employment is still widening. Governments across the MENA region have invested heavily in education, and the past decade has witnessed a rapid expansion of primary, secondary and tertiary education. Yet, the results have been more or less disappointing. Schools and universities are turning out graduates lacking the skills they need to succeed in job markets, and the job market itself is hamstrung by economic mismanagement. The result: high levels of education with mass unemployment.

  • Abu Dhabi to race their championship car, Quantum,

    UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, 2015/04/25 An atypical University of Michigan Solar Car squad raced in the inaugural Abu Dhabi Solar Challenge in typical U-M solar car fashion: finishing on top. The Michigan University team has today been awarded initial place in the Abu Dhabi Solar Challenge, while second place went to the United Arab Emirate’s (UAE), Petroleum Institute. It is the initial time the UAE has been represented in a solar car challenge. Belgium’s Punch Powertrain team took third place. Abu Dhabi Solar Challenge winners with HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid and HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed.

  • Dubai needs to invest $2bn building 51 new schools by 2020

    UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, 2014/11/19 Dubai’s rapidly growing people will mean it will need to invest millions in its education sector to meet request for new schools, according to a new statement by real estate consultancy firm Colliers International. "In the last decade, the private education sector has witnessed significant increase; doubling enrolment figures and introducing additional supply, which increased the competitive edge within the market. This trend is expected to continue in the near next and by 2020 Dubai will need an additional 77,000 student places, translating into 51 new schools. This will require investment of an estimated $2 billion" said Mansoor Ahmed, director of healthcare and education at Colliers International.

  • UAE schools failing to fill vacancies

    UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, 2014/11/19 Schools across the UAE are failing to recruit enough teachers, leaving thousands of positions unfilled, according to education bosses. Speaking to The National newspaper on the sidelines of the Education Investment Mena conference in Dubai, Victor Saad, vice president of school operator Sabis, said there is a “scarcity of good teachers” across the UAE, backing up 2013 figured by the Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA) that government schools last year faced a shortfall of 800 teachers in Dubai and the Northern Emirates. “There is a dependence on expats across the Middle East and North Africa region and there is a challenge of finding the right teacher, and that is leading to additional investment in research and development in trying to create quality teachers,” Saad said.

  • Kalam village in Pakistan,

    PAKISTAN, 2013/07/20 The UAE has opened a new preparatory school in Kalam village in Pakistan, the new part of the government’s $7.5m aid to help fund educational projects in the country, the WAM news agency reported. The UAE Project to Assist Pakistan has opened the school in the village of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan and is part of the directives and initiatives ordered by President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan. The new Haryati School in Kalam village will serve 225 male and female students from primary and preparatory stages. The two-storey building of the school consists of eight class rooms, a computer lab and government facilities.
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