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Helpful tips for business and leisure tourists travelling to Dubai

Dubai has built a unique education system to fit its population’s needs by harnessing the capacity of the private sector, while also continuing to develop a more sophisticated regulatory framework to ensure every school is delivering quality education.

In the closing weeks of 2013 the Dubai Health Authority (DHA) announced the details of a long-anticipated new health insurance mandate. Based on an employer-provided benefit model, the new regulation stipulates that by October 2014 companies that have more than 1000 employees will be required to provide health insurance to their staff.

There was a time not long ago when a significant number of students living in Dubai would consider only a handful of universities within the emirate, while for the most part looking abroad for higher education. Now, however, Dubai is home to dozens of branch campuses of foreign universities and the emirate has quickly turned itself into an...

As it seeks to become a centre for medical tourism, Dubai is entering into a mature and competitive market, but also one with positive growth trends and increasing demand. According to consulting firm McKinsey & Co, medical tourism was estimated to be a $100bn global industry in 2012, and many countries throughout the world have registered...

After three years of low to modest growth, Dubai’s banking sector appears to have rebalanced itself following the 2009-11 economic crisis. Buoyed by rising asset quality throughout 2013, most of the eight national banks headquartered in Dubai have resolved legacy issues stemming from the collapse of the emirate’s property market, restructured...