Ensuring access to education has been a prime objective for Morocco over the past couple of decades, and recent indicators illustrate significant progress. The primary level net enrolment ratio, for instance, rose from 71% to 99% between 1999 and 2013, according to the report “Education For All 2000-15” by UNESCO, and the number of public...
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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