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 […]
The University of Balamand Dubai (UOBD), a wholly owned subsidiary of Dubai Investments PJSC and the first university in Dubai Investments Park, yesterday signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Emirates District Cooling (Emicool) which will provide student scholarships in the fields of civil engineering and business studies as of academic year 2019-2020. The MoU was […]
South View School (SVS), the first British-curriculum school in Dubai’s Remraam Community formally opened on Tuesday. Dr. Abdulla Al Karam, Chairman of the Board of Directors and Director General of Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA) formally inaugurated the new campus. He was joined by Joanne Wells, Principal of South View School; Dinesh Kothari, Chairman […]
SAE Institute, the world’s leading educator in creative media industries will host an Open Day on Saturday, 8th December for prospective students and parents at its Dubai campus. The event will give interested students and their parents from across the UAE a chance to explore the institute’s facilities, meet with like-minded students, inspiring academics and […]
