Till a few years back, some lost travellers and stray camels were the only ones spotted in a wide stretch off the Al Ain and Al Ruwayyah road.
Till a few years back, some lost travellers and stray camels were the only ones spotted in a wide stretch off the Al Ain and Al Ruwayyah road.
Till a few years back, some lost travellers and stray camels were the only ones spotted in a wide stretch off the Al Ain and Al Ruwayyah road.
DUBAI - Some students find conversations with the teacher on the birds they notice on the way to school informative. Some prefer a power point presentation on the birds in the UAE while others respond to a drawing assignment on the local birds.
DUBA I— As a child, Huda Hassan, an Emirati, spent hours with her grandmother relishing the tales of Arabia — the pearl divers, Bedouins and wind towers that will stay with her for life.
DUBAI — When a teenager enters his last year of school, conversations at the dinner table shift from homework dilemmas and weekend plans to the best university to apply to and how to fund education overseas.
ABU DHABI — Masdar Institute of Science and Technology will start its pre-Masters programme on January 24 as part of an initiative to increase the enrollments of UAE Nationals in the institute’s Master’s of Science 
programmes.
DUBAI —United Kingdom universities will ‘configure themselves’ to accommodate budget cuts by the country’s government without compromising on quality and its position as a popular destination of study, according to the country’s education representatives in the UAE.
SHARJAH — About 350 high school students turned out for orientation at the American University of Sharjah (AUS) this week. Dr. Thomas Hochstettler, Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs, during a welcome session held for the students and their parents at the university during the weekend, said their courses beginning in Spring Semester would be challenging but they had the grades to meet the requirements.
DUBAI — It is common knowledge that children as young as 10 years smoke, that the UAE has the second highest prevalence of diabetes and that obesity is the main health concern in the community.
Experts say focus must shift to participatory community research to eradicate the root cause of issues like smoking among children, obesity and diabetes