Dubai International Academic City plans to create an education hub for the entire Middle East and North Africa region with nearly 40 universities catering for 40,000 students.
Meanwhile, sttudents looking to join NYU’s new Abu Dhabi site will have to meet the same requirements as those at its home campus in Washington Square, New York.
Outsourcing to the US: The Health Authority Abu Dhabi (HAAD) has disclosed that it has been sending cases of medical malpractice, negligence or misconduct to the US since the start of the year after overhauling its compliance division, which includes the complaints section.
The challenge facing Dubai and the rest of the UAE, he said, was to retain its traditional values. It would not be easy. “Young Emiratis will be influenced,” he said. “The question is, by how much and what can the country do about it?”
Intra-Arab cultural perspectives: A female Iraqi colleague says she was surprised that she had struggled to find work in the UAE; this is despite over 20 years experience in the industry (almost all of that in Iraq).
I found her ’surprise’ surprising.
The Ministry of Education in the UAE has reassigned some Islamist Emirati teachers from the Emirates Reform Society to other ministries where they do not have contact with children. (Via AE.)
Last week, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office warned Britons travelling to the United Arab Emirates of a “high threat from terrorism”.
Pakistan’s popular Geo TV news channel, which transmits from Dubai, says the United Arab Emirates has asked it to drop two talk shows.
Emiratis express concern that they are losing their ‘national identity’.
GTA4 is banned in the UAE.
Yet, they have titles like ‘Kane and Lynch’ and ‘Bully’ on sale.
‘The Simpsons’. Venezuela bans them. The UAE subtly censors them.
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