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About The British University in Dubai

The British University in Dubai (BUiD) is the Middle East's first research-based, postgraduate university. The University was established to facilitate access to world-class education, training and research in the Middle East. BUiD aspires to the highest, internationally recognized British standards as reflected in its partnership with the University of Edinburgh, the University of Birmingham, the University of Manchester, Cardiff University and the Cass Business School at City University, London. Each has a five or five-star rating in the UK national Research Assessment Exercise that signifies research of international standard.

The not-for-profit university offers full and part-time Masters Degree programmes and Continuing Professional Development courses in Information Technology, Project Management, Human Resources Management, Sustainable Design of the Built Environment, Finance and Banking, Education, and IT Management.

All BUiD's current Masters Programmes have received Initial Accreditation Eligibility Status from the UAE Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research's Commission for Academic Accreditation.

The founders of the University are the Al Maktoum Foundation, the Dubai Development and Investment Authority, Rolls-Royce, the British Business Group and the National Bank of Dubai. The University is governed by a Council under the chairmanship of Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum.

The Emirates Group, DUCAB, Atkins, Dubai Duty Free, Hyder Consulting, the Emirates Foundation and DUGAS are supporters of the university through financial contributions or the provision of scholarships.

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Dr Clifton Chadwick
Dr Chadwick has thirty years of successful sector analysis, project development and project implementation in developing countries. He recently finished the post of Senior Curriculum Advisor to the Ministry of Education and Culture of the newly formed Democratic Republic of East Timor (through World Bank financing).

Previously he was the Senior on-site Project Manager in the most important country-wide education reform project in the Middle East, in Qatar (through the RAND Corporation). He has been actively involved in analyzing needs and the nature of systems requiring poverty alleviation interventions. He was co-author of the first "sector analysis" in education, in Korea, for USAID, Team Leader for a World Bank Social Sector Analysis in Honduras, author of the Education Sector Analysis in Equatorial Guinea and many other similar projects.

He completed his Ph.D. in Educational Research (Psychology) at Florida State University.

Dr Chadwick has advised Ministries and Ministers of Education throughout the world with particular reference to educational reform issues. He has developed education and health projects for World Bank, USAID and private foundations (including preparation of several successful proposals), through the OAS and UNDP and other organizations. He is an energetic, well-known Educational Psychologist involved in a wide range of educational issues, in North, Central and South America, Africa, Middle East and Asia.
An early innovator in distance education, he developed and implemented the largest distance teacher training project ever done in South America with over thirty-two thousand participants.

He has researched and developed innovative methods for teaching reading of English to Spanish-speaking primary school children, and developed innovative and creative textbook and page-layout concepts to improve learning and increase metacognition as well as criteria for evaluating and choosing textbooks.

Dr Chadwick has extensive experience in curriculum, evaluation of learning, project evaluation, textbooks and educational materials and instructional design, educational technology, teacher training and evaluation and has been a decisive leader in South America in the development of the concepts of cognitive strategies, metacognition and affective variables in learning. Dr. Chadwick has performed wide-ranging work in teacher training including much graduate-level University teaching investigating new methods to improve teaching.

Dr. Chadwick has published twenty textbooks in three different languages on a wide range of education issues. He was the Editor and main force behind a widely distributed and highly acclaimed journal of educational technology and psychology, Revista de Tecnología Educativa, and member of editorial board of several other publications. He has authored fifteen major monographs (reports, sector analyses, etc) written for international organizations, including one on How to Determine the Quality of Education and over two hundred articles published on a wide range of education issues in refereed and other journals, magazines and newspapers.