The Middle East Education

In recent years the UAE has become an emerging higher education centre, especially within the GCC region, with strong government initiatives, impressive infrastructure, a growing number of international collaborations and a truly multicultural student body. Within the UAE itself, Sharjah is increasingly regarded as a key centre of higher...

With the founding of the University of Sharjah (UoS) and the American University of Sharjah (AUS) in 1997, the emirate took an important step towards the development of its higher education segment. Sharjah is now widely considered to have some of the top universities in the region, enabling the emirate to provide quality education to students...

As part of the kingdom’s attempts to grow into a regional education centre as well as expand into being a more knowledge-based economy, a strong emphasis has been placed on raising the quality of tuition on offer.

In 2016 the University of Salford became the first British higher education institution to partner with the government of Bahrain, when it announced that it would begin offering degrees through a new campus in Janabiyah. The university expects to enrol its first 100 students in September 2017. Meanwhile, Bahrain’s Applied Science University (...

As Bahrain continues to move from an oil-dependent economy to a more knowledge-based one, education is taking a driving seat in training the next generation of young Bahraini citizens in how to prosper in this new landscape. While education has long been a priority, the focus right now is on raising overall standards, from primary education on...

ICT is viewed by the Omani government as essential to improving the quality of education. The Ministry of Education (MoE) employs a comprehensive set of recommendations for technology-assisted instruction across the entire national curriculum at all grades and levels of education.