Culture & Education | Sunday 6 September, 2020 11:33 am

Students willing to seek out support in their first year more likely to succeed, says AUS expert

With thousands of students across the UAE starting their first year at university recently, the move to virtual learning has created a unique set of challenges for them. Not only do they have to contend with the usual challenges encountered by first-year students, but they also have to navigate the ...

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Culture & Education | Sunday 6 September, 2020 7:07 am

G20 Education Ministers Support Efforts to Mitigate Impacts of Coronavirus and Education Continuity in Crises

The G20 Education Ministers held a virtual extraordinary meeting to emphasize the central role of education in enabling people to seize the opportunities of the twenty-first century.The ministers expressed, in the closing statement of their virtual meeting on the novel coronavirus, their support...

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Culture & Education | Thursday 3 September, 2020 11:43 am

Celebrate Back To School Season with FOX Family Movies

 Celebrate Back To School Season with FOX Family Movies  FOX Family Movies is Treating Families across the Middle East to a Back To School movie special, with weekly Award-Winning Disney Movies from September 6th  Movie line-up features Disney’s ‘Chronicles of Narnia:...

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Culture & Education | Tuesday 1 September, 2020 1:28 pm

Abu Dhabi University launched a series of free community-focused initiatives

Abu Dhabi University (ADU) has launched a series of online courses under its latest initiative entitled ‘Investing in our Community’. The initiative kicked off in July and continued throughout the month of August. It delivered a number of workshops and educational sessions aimed at teachers,...

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Culture & Education | Monday 31 August, 2020 9:28 am

Saudi Film Festival to begin Tuesday

The sixth edition of the Saudi Film Festival is set to kick off virtually on Tuesday. The event is organized by the Culture and Arts Association in Dammam, in partnership with the King Abdul Aziz Center for World Culture (Ithra) in Dhahran, and is backed by the Film Commission of the...

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Culture & Education | Saturday 29 August, 2020 3:19 pm

Saudi schools prepare for remote learning as new academic year begins

The new academic year begins on Sunday and schools across the Kingdom have been preparing for virtual learning.All students in Saudi Arabia will be attending classes remotely for the first seven weeks of the first semester as part of the Kingdom’s precautionary measures against the novel...

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Culture & Education | Saturday 29 August, 2020 3:13 pm

Abu Dhabi University announces nine additional Engineering degree offerings at its new campus in Al Ain

Abu Dhabi University (ADU) has expanded the academic offerings at its new Tahnoun bin Mohammed campus in Al Ain to include nine new degrees as part of Al Ain Campus’s 40 undergraduate and postgraduate programs. Following approval from the Commission for Academic Accreditation (CAA) at the...

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Culture & Education | Saturday 29 August, 2020 1:23 am

Umm Al-Qura University champions distance learning with Cisco

Umm Al-Qura University, one of Saudi Arabia’s largest educational institutions, has deployed Cisco’s most advanced collaboration software, Webex for Education, to enable distance learning for over 100,000 participants across its 36 colleges.  The successful implementation has enabled Umm...

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Culture & Education | Wednesday 26 August, 2020 2:37 pm

Disney announces brand new line up for MENA sports fans to enjoy on ESPN Player

Middle East sports fans able to access freshest sports content on ESPN Player, including live college sports, studio programming and award-winning documentariesLive and on-demand programming highlights include over 400 documentaries such as Oscar-winning documentary OJ: Made In America and recently ...

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Culture & Education | Wednesday 26 August, 2020 12:35 pm

Abu Dhabi University appoints Professor Barry O’Mahony as new dean to lead the College of Business

Abu Dhabi University (ADU) has announced the appointment of Professor Barry O’Mahony as Dean of the College of Business. In this role, Prof. O’Mahony will lead the College of Business in providing outstanding undergraduate and postgraduate education and internationally competitive research and...

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