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242 U N I T E D A R A B E M I R AT E S Y E A R B O O K 2 0 0 8Education Without BordersHCT hosts the biennial international student conference ‘EducationWithout Borders’, a unique forum promoting critical thinkingand cultural awareness among the younger generation. In 2007over 1000 students from 108 countries debated the problems andissues faced by the world community, bringing their own uniqueperspective to bear on innovative solutions. As the global studentorganising committee comments, this is not just a three-daywonder, it is an ongoing network that benefits all participants.At the 2007 event, Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan,Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Chancellorof the Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT) and an enthusiasticsupporter of the conference, pledged to sponsor Sail Arabia, aproject that will embark on the building of a unique Arabian sailingdhow. Supported by HCT, the Sail Arabia project, will encourage theintegration of physically challenged and able-bodied people. It willalso provide a challenging and rewarding programme of personaland character development for all participants.The Sail Arabia project,supported by theHigher Colleges ofTechnology, will providea challenging andrewarding programmeof personal andcharacter developmentfor both physicallychallenged and ablebodiedparticipants.PRIVATE INSTITUTIONSPrivate universities offer a wide range of tertiary-level opportunitiesin the <strong>UAE</strong>. Notable institutions include the American Universitiesof Sharjah and Dubai, Sharjah University and the Ajman Universityof Science and Technology. The Ministry of Higher Educationand Scientific Research is responsible for the accreditation ofinstitutes and degrees and its website provides a comprehensivelist of recognised institutes and programmes.Abu Dhabi University (ADU), with campuses in Abu Dhabi andAl Ain, is one of the newer private institutions. ADU has over44 nationalities in its student population and is continuouslycultivating associations with prominent educational institutionsworldwide and offering joint programmes with a large numberof international universities.ADU’s Dh10 million in grants and financial aid offered to highachievingstudents in the form of the Sheikh Hamdan scholarshipsis the largest programme of its kind offered by government orprivate higher education institutions in the <strong>UAE</strong>.
S O C I A L D E V E L O P M E N T243ADU inaugurated its new well-equipped 4-million-squaremetrecampus at Khalifa City 'B' in October 2006 and signed amemorandum of understanding (MoU) in 2007 with MunichTechnical University and the University of Bonn from Germanyto jointly establish a College for Medicine and Health Sciences tobe based at the ADU campus.Al Hosn University in Abu Dhabi opened in 2005. This newprivate university, supported by Abu Dhabi Holding Company(ADHC), will initially be operating from temporary premises. Alarge site in Madinat Khalifa has been earmarked by the AbuDhabi government for the construction of a permanent campus.As already mentioned, an Abu Dhabi chapter of the SorbonneUniversity was also established in 2006. Wholly owned by ADEC,the university will award qualifications under French regulationsand in accordance with academic standards set by the Sorbonnein Paris. All subjects will be taught in French by tutors from theSorbonne. The new university, which is open to students of bothsexes and of all nationalities, is operating from an interim campusnear the Petroleum Institute, but will move to a permanent homeby early 2008.The opening of the Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Centre forScience and Technology at the Institute of Applied Technology inDubai in 2007 further underpins the country’s drive towardsimparting twenty-first-century skills to students, focusing inparticular on generating an elite corps of scientists, engineersand technicians.Dubai Knowledge Village, a member of TECOM Investments,has launched Dubai International Academic City (DIAC), theworld’s only free zone dedicated to international higher education.Located in the 2.33-million-square-metre Dubai Academic City, adedicated tertiary-level multi-university educational cluster, DIACwill serve as the regional base for a number of international highereducation institutions, targeting students from the region whoare unable to go abroad to study.Nearly 20 international institutes of higher learning fromAustralia, India, Pakistan, Iran, Russia, Belgium, UK and Irelandhave already set up base at DIAC, catering to over 8500 students.The new campus of AbuDhabi University at KhalifaCity ‘B’ was inaugurated inOctober 2006.Dubai InternationalAcademic City willserve as the regionalbase for a number ofinternational highereducation institutions,targeting studentsfrom the region whoare unable to goabroad to study.@www.uaeinteract.com/uaeeducation
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