For the first time in recent years the budget for education fell year-on-year in 2016, leaving ministers and officials with some stark choices about how best to spend their allocation. On December 28, 2015, the day the government’s spending plans were announced, crude oil was trading at $37 a barrel, having fallen from the most recent peak of...
As befits a vibrant, highly commercial global city, Dubai’s education sector is multi-faceted, with kindergartens, schools and universities offering public and private education drawing on best practice from around the world. The UAE has the highest number of international schools, on a strictly numerical basis, and Dubai is a destination of...
In the 2015/16 academic year children at 208 schools across the UAE will find tablets and smart devices playing a much larger part in their lessons, as they become the latest beneficiaries of a technology campaign being led by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. The Mohammed bin Rashid Smart Learning Programme (MBRSLP) was initiated in 2012...
Private education is a multi-billion-dollar business in Dubai, and the sector is growing fast as new schools are built to serve the children of a rapidly expanding population of expatriates and Emiratis. The demand for fee-paying education is being met by investors and by foreign financiers as well as home-grown Dubai businesses. New schools...
The national drive for economic diversification and the nurturing of a knowledge-based economy, combined with a growing young population, has led Kuwait to develop an extensive scholarship programme to allow students to study abroad. Those on government-supported study abroad programmes are joined by many Kuwaiti students whose families fund...
The country’s long-term development plan, laid out in Kuwait Vision 2035, places a strong emphasis on education as a catalyst to economic diversification, sustainable growth and social progress. Substantial investment from the government is now being coupled with reform tailored to Kuwait’s needs and values. The private sector has a strong...
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