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HCT to Begin Printing Courses for Emirati Students in September

ABU DHABI — Over 200 students will be enrolled at the Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT) for a work readiness 
(certificate) programme
in Printing and Packaging, and diploma courses in Printing and Packaging, and Printing Management (Printing Maintenance) in the inaugural year of the courses beginning
this September.

The courses will be for Emirati students initially.

Shaikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research and Chancellor of the HCT, and Mohammad Khalaf Al Mazroui, 
chairman of United
Printing and Publishing
Co. (UPP), signed an agreement to develop and offer the courses
on Tuesday.

“It is a good step to enhance the printing industry in the country as we have about 200 printing houses,” Al Mazrouisaid after signingthe agreement.

Ali Saif Al Nuaimi, general manager of United Printing and Publishing Co., said only national students will be admitted in the courses in the beginning.

Expatriate students will be admitted in the
next phase.

The diploma will allow students to study the recent technologies in printing, Al Nuaimi said.

Printing management would be one of the topics in the programmein addition totraining in new software and printing machines.
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