Dubai Women's College students receive training in China

Students are all enrolled in the Information Technology (IT) department and will travel to China on the 2nd of November for one week.

During the session, students received the details of their training program, fully funded by Huawei Technologies, which will be carried out by the Customer Training Center at Huawei University.

The training program has been prepared after careful evaluation of the skills and requirements of the participating students in order to make sure it adds value to their IT skills.

Students will spend 4 days studying Datacom technologies including network fundamentals and basic routing technologies which are intended for first line field technicians, commission and testing IT specialists.

Students will also spend two days studying NGN system and product and WCDMA RAN system overviews which will provide them with telecom management skills and enhance their overall technical skills.

This Datacom product customized training is part of students' academic requirements at DWC's IT department.

Huawei Technologies is a leader in providing next generation telecommunications networks, and now serves 35 of the world's top 50 operators, along with over one billion users worldwide.

The company is committed to providing innovative and customized products, services and solutions to create long-term value and growth potential for its customers.

"We are indeed proud to be associated with the Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT) and we hope to enhance this relationship to greater levels. As a Corporate Company doing business in UAE our responsibility to the UAE community is being addressed through this UAE-China student training programs. This year we are inviting a batch of seven women students from DWC to China and impart training on the latest innovations in the telecom industry. In 2007 we had trained a batch of 20 male students from the HCT",

noted Wang Jiading, President of Huawei Middle East and North Africa region.

International study tours are an integral part of DWC students' learning experiences that are intended to provide global-based learning opportunities in order to enhance students' knowledge of worldwide industry trends and understanding of different cultures and global issues.

"DWC finds it particularly significant to encourage international study tours due to the great value they add to our students' perspectives and familiarity with critical global issues. We are honored to work with an international technology leader like Huawei and appreciate their commitment to the HCT. Since 2005, DWC had more than 437 students participate in more than 47 international study tours to countries such as China, South Africa, Germany, USA, UK, Egypt, Malaysia, Kuwait, Turkey, Australia, Czech Republic, Switzerland, and Singapore," said Dr. Howard Reed, Senior Director at the HCT and Director of DWC.