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New 'House of Wisdom' unveiled
UAE Vice-President and Prime Minister HH Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum unveiled the modern Arab 'House of Wisdom', reported Gulf News. The Knowledge Complex is a $10bn education initiative of the Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation. It also include scholarships for young Arab professionals, online programme for women who have family, and loan programme for refugees to start small businesses.
Education City on roadshow
Qatar Foundation is sponsoring the 'Discover Education City Roadshow', which begins today, reported The Peninsula. The show will cover Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Abu Dhabi and Dubai and will showcase the wide range of education and research institutions in the Education City.
Al Alim totals JD16.5m capital
Al Alim Al Arabi for Educational Services, founder of both the Middle East University for Higher Learning, and the American School in Aqaba announced that it is raising its capital to reach JD16.5m. The institution plans to complete its private and public accreditation requirements so that it can accommodate up to 8000 students in the future.
GETEX debuts in Bahrain
Global Education and Training Exhibition (GETEX) has opened its first exhibition in Bahrain yesterday at the Gulf International Convention and Exhibition Centre, at the Gulf Hotel, Manama. Established in 1984, focusing on higher education for students in the Middle East, GETEX has expanded internationally with a strong emphasis on education technology.
Outreach program for IT workers
The British University in Dubai has launched a unique outreach program based on innovative thinking in artificial intelligence and information technology which is open to all IT professionals working in the region. The program, the latest in a series of objectives to transform the emirate's knowledge economy, will include a series of lectures and dedicated research workshops for IT professionals.
Saudi breaks ground on Kaust
Saudi Arabia has announced that is has broken ground on the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), which aims to be a world-class, graduate-level science and technology university in the Kingdom. With one of the largest endowments in the world, the university has already begun a program to recruit top-flight faculty and students from across the globe.
Visa delays force illegal hires
Private schools in the UAE are being forced to employ teachers illegally because of government delays in issuing visas, reported Emirates Today. An official at the ministry of labor said most private schools have violated labour laws at some point, but he acknowledged that they cannot wait months for ministries to sort out visas and work permits.
Literacy TV to be launched in 2008
Alfa B TV, the first ever dedicated International television channel for literacy, will be launched next year, said Rui Sancho Fernandes president of the channel during the New Arab Women Forum. The channel will serve as an education tool for illiterate people across the Middle East and North Africa, providing them with instructions in various aspects including health, nutrition, environment, community, and so on.
Microsoft on digital literacy
Microsoft will offer to the Gulf region the Microsoft Digital Literacy, a wide range of critical ICT literacy skills to be available to anyone within Microsoft programmes and initiatives - free of charge. It consists of five flexible courses hosted through an online training interface in English and will be available in Arabic soon.
DUBAL awards education
Dubai Aluminium Company Limited (DUBAL)has launched its education award for 2007/2008, offering handsome cash prizes to students participating in the 2007/2008 DUBAL Educational Award competition. The theme chosen for the 2007/2008 competition is 'DUBAL and the Environment'. The contest aims to help schools provide their students with research-based learning opportunities.
JUST gets Zain telco lab
Zain has inaugurated a lab for mobile telecommunications at the Jordan University of Science and Technology (JUST) as part of its ongoing support efforts to the education sector in Jordan. This lab is considered the first-of-its-kind across all universities in Jordan in terms of specialization and focus on mobile telecommunications.
Qatarisation on standstill
Qatari Nationals feel that expatriates still dominate key positions in Qatar, cited The Peninsula. Qataris expressed their disappointments to interviews by the daily, saying that Qatarisation in the public sector remains stalled while private sector lacks the initiative almost completely. The report added that another major factor behind slow progress in job localization is that certain jobs demand specialised skills and experience which the citizens do not possess.
UAE seeks international help
The UAE's Minister of Education, Dr. Hanif Hassan, said the Gulf nation is eager to benefit from international educational organisations, and their expertise and experience, to improve the quality of education in the country, reported Khaleej Times. While heading the UAE delegation at the 34th round of Unesco General Convention in Paris, Dr. Hassan said the UAE had earned an international reputation for its initiatives to spread education and treating education as the right of every citizen.
17 colleges for Saudi
Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah has sanctioned the establishment of 17 new colleges in the kingdom, reported Arab News. The new facilities will include a design college for women in Dammam, a naturopathy college for women in Riyadh, an applied sciences college in Yanbu, a nursing centre in Qassim and a college for administrative and human sciences in Majmaa. The University of Women in Riyadh will also receive several new colleges.
No exec degree checks
Dr Ali bin Abdullah Al Ka'abi, the UAE's Minister of Labour, has said senior employees, including managers, will no longer need to have their academic degrees verified when renewing their labour cards, reported Gulf News. The move is for the benefit of those currently in senior positions but without appropriate qualifications. Degree verification, costing Dhs500, was instigated in January 2006 for anyone seeking a work visa.
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