The British University in Dubai honours scholarship recipients

Notes and media contacts

For more information, contact BUiD on +9714 3913633.

For Emirates, contact:
Frances Barton, Emirates' Corporate Communications;
T: (+9714) 2032144; M: (+97150) 650 3900

For British University in Dubai, contact:
Catherine Tracey, Hill & Knowlton
T: (+9714) 3344930; M: (97150) 552 8649

About The British University in Dubai
The British University in Dubai (BUiD) is the Middle East's first research-based 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 recognised British standards as reflected in its partnership with The University of Edinburgh, The University of Birmingham and The University of Manchester. Each has a five or five-star rating in the UK national research assessment 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, Engineering and Education.

BUiD's Masters programmes in Information Technology, Project Management and Education have received Accreditation Eligibility Status from The UAE Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, 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 managed by a provisional council under the chairmanship of Emirates' Chairman, HH Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al-Maktoum.

The Emirates Group has pledged its support for the University by partnering through a financial contribution.

About Emirates
Since its launch in 1985, Emirates Airline has received more than 250 international awards in recognition of its efforts to provide unsurpassed levels of customer service.
The airline has experienced rapid and consistent growth, above 20 per cent a year on average and has been profitable for the last 17 years. Financially self-sustained and unprotected, Emirates carried 10.4 million passengers in the 2003-04 financial year - almost two million more than the year before - and declared a record US$ 429 million profit, an increase of 73.5 per cent over the previous year, on revenue of US $3.6 billion - nearly US$1 billion more, or 37 per cent better than the year before.
Emirates is the world's fastest-growing intercontinental airline, one of the world's five most profitable and among the 20 largest ones. It is based in Dubai, one of the few cities in the world that pursues an open-skies policy, with more than 110 airlines in free and fair competition.
Its 72 all wide-bodied fleet includes six Boeing 747 freighters and is among the youngest in the skies, with an average age of 46 months. The airline plans to more than double its size by 2012.