Union National Bank, UNB, in collaboration with GEMS Modern Academy, organized a book signing ceremony for the “Journey with Ali and Khaled”, a book literary work for children to help them gain information about the UAE’s history, heritage, and traditions. This book comes as part of UNB’s initiatives to celebrate the ‘Year of Zayed.’ The […]
GEMS Education, one of the world’s leading providers of private English-language education for students from kindergarten to twelfth grade (K-12), has announced today that it has exercised its option to initially buy a 50 per cent stake in four schools in Egypt which it has been managing since it entered the market earlier this year. […]
Emirates Group, The British University in Dubai celebrated the graduation of its 13th cohort of PhD and Masters graduates. The University’s Vice Chancellor, Professor Abdullah Alshamsi, congratulated the graduates and said: “The British University in Dubai marks today another milestone in its development. We are very proud to see another cohort of our graduates walk across […]
Accenture (NYSE: ACN) teamed up with Expo 2020 Dubai and two schools in UAE and KSA to lead coding tutorial sessions between December 3-9, 2018. Taking place in Riyadh, Dubai and Abu Dhabi, Accenture’s Hour of Code activities were part of the company’s commitment to helping students around the world build computer and science, technology, […]
A group of students from the University of Birmingham Dubai Computer Science programme have been awarded the prestigious Expo Live 2020 University Innovation Program grant. Students Lilly Schwarzenbach, Israel Ayokunnu, Ahmad Khouli and Surya Kosaraju, mentored by Computer Science Lecturer, Dr Eliseo Ferrante, were selected from more than 500 applications from the UAE. The rigorous […]
A total of 92 students participated in the University of Wollongong in Dubai’s (UOWD) first-ever Inter-University Business Pitch competition, based on the popular TV programs ‘Dragon’s Den’ and ‘Shark Tank.’ Organised by Club Impresario, the students’ entrepreneurship and innovation club, budding entrepreneurs were given three minutes to pitch their business ideas to a panel of […]
Middlesex University Dubai helps students excel in their higher education journey through its MA People Management and Development and MBA Programmes. Students who enrol to one of the courses for the January 2019 intake before the 15 December 2018 are eligible to receive a 20 % Grant. This Grant, however, cannot be used in conjunction […]
Rashed Hashem, a Physical Education and Health teacher at Al Moatasem Public School for boys in Baniyas, Abu Dhabi, UAE, has been included in the top 50 shortlist for the Varkey Foundation Global Teacher Prize 2019 at globalteacherprize.org. Now in its fifth year, the US$1 million award is the largest prize of its kind. The […]
Zayed University and the UAE Red Crescent Authority have signed an agreement to grant Dh1,017,000 (One million seventeen thousand dirhams) to underprivileged Emirati students’ education at Zayed University. Both sides agreed to host charitable initiatives and campaigns, engage community volunteering opportunities for Zayed University students, and support the students’ ZU Red Crescent Club. The agreement […]
The education sector in Dubai is now at a tipping point, with aggressive marketing and tuition fee discounts symptomatic of an oversupply of schools. Pressure is expected to increase with a further 13 schools slated to open next academic year, bringing the total number of private schools in Dubai to 207. The quality of education […]
