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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