Archive for category: Middle East

ShareDespite higher cost of living expenses and rising tuition fees, the United Kingdom is still one of the most popular education destinations for both Emirati and expatriate UAE students. However, according to counsellors from British universities, the maximum number of enquiries are for medicine and engineering courses. International Placewell Consultants [...]

ShareGEMS Education Ltd., the Dubai- based privately owned provider of school education, obtained a 2 billion-dirham ($545 million) loan to refinance investments and provide funds for Middle Eastand North Africa expansion. The six-year facility with Islamic and conventional parts was arranged by Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank (ADIB) PJSC, Mashreqbank PSC (MASQ), Dubai Islamic Bank PJSC, [...]

ShareEducation is a building block of any successful society. But as critical as quality education is for encouraging families to relocate to these shores, the current school model for expatriates makes providing for all students a difficult endeavour. As The National reported on Monday, the Al Farooq Pakistani Islamic School [...]

ShareAmerican University of Sharjah (AUS), ranked one of the top 450 universities worldwide by QS World University Ranking, announced today that it will partner with London School of Economics (LSE), one of the foremost social science universities in the world, to host ‘The New Middle East: Transition in the Arab [...]

ShareDuring a high profile ceremony in the Egyptian Capital Cairo, the winners of the L’Oréal-UNESCO Pan-Arab ‘For Women In Science’ Fellowship Programme were announced. This prestigious celebration of science was organized under the auspices of H.E Prof. Dr. Nadia Zakhary the Egyptian Minister of Scientific Research and was attended by [...]

ShareAl Sabari Indian School (SIS) in Dubai has announced the launch of its admissions process and said classes are set to commence in April, Gulf News has reported. The new school, which follows the CBSE-i curriculum, will initially enrol pupils from the kindergarten level to Grade 5, with plans to [...]

ShareThe UAE education ministry is planning to make the school bag redundant within the next few years, as part of a project to enable education to be conducted solely on tablets, Khaleej Times has reported. “Students will be using iPads and the different curricula can be opened on these same [...]

ShareThe United Arab Emirates University (UAEU), the national University has launched a new University College. Its establishment significantly enhances the support that UAEU gives to its students from the beginning to the end of their studies and beyond. The University College comprises the University Foundation Program, the Center for Student [...]

Share(MENAFN Press) Hundreds of University of Dubai (UD) students and alumni attended the annual Job Fair this week to hand out resumes in hopes of landing employment at a variety of leading public and private UAE companies. University of Dubai President Dr. Omar Hefni said, “The job fair is very [...]

ShareThe World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE), a Qatar-based initiative, is inviting the world’s most innovative projects in education to apply for the 2013 WISE Awards. Finalists and winning projects of the WISE Awards demonstrate both real-world solutions to current educational challenges and serve as examples that can potentially be [...]