Dubai wants to be the ultimate destination for education, and Pakistanis can advantage

 

Dubai wants to be the ultimate destination for education, and Pakistanis can advantage

Dubai’s abundance of worldwide massive-name universities presenting high first-class education, coupled with the UAE’s National Strategy for Higher Education 2030 and plenty of scholarships on offer, have placed the town as a really perfect spot for Pakistanis who need an worldwide college revel in near home.

 

Govt initiatives

The country’s approach, released in 2017, consists of the Expanded Professional Experience initiative to provide a spread of profession training programmes to students along with on-campus paintings, job shadowing, joint ventures and vocational trainings.

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The Investment in Knowledge initiative became designed to increase the range of Ph.D. College students by using growing aid for postgraduate investment and growing incentives to pursue better training by ensuring appealing process possibilities.

 

“In the plans of the UAE toward 2030, it desires to grow to be the primary vacation spot for excellence in schooling,” stated Dr Cedwyn Fernandes, Pro Vice-Chancellor and Director, Middlesex University Dubai.

 

Speaking to Business Recorder, he stated the Dubai government’s Knowledge & Human Development Authority (KHDA) ensures nice of schooling is brought that matches student expectancies. It provides infrastructure and help, and its legal guidelines are not bureaucratic however as an alternative sensible and flexible.

 

“If we need to introduce a new programme, for example an MSc in cybersecurity or some thing associated with artificial intelligence (AI), the government and the regulators realize you want to transport fast and that they provide a expertise base for that vicinity.”

 

Middlesex University Dubai, which has a few 500 Pakistani students presently reading there throughout its undergrad and postgrad programmes, is at once related to the only within the UK.

 

In truth, Dr Fernandes stated some college students do a 12 months in Dubai and use it as a springboard to move directly to the London campus.

 

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“The top notch factor is in case you’re a student at one campus, you’re a pupil in any respect campuses. We are all one university.”

 

Dubai is domestic to international department campuses of universities from the UK, the United States, Australia and France.

 

Other than Middlesex, Dubai also has campuses for University of Wollongong, Bayes Business school (previously Cass Business School), Curtin University and University of Birmingham, amongst many others.

Job opportunities and visas

 

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Dr Fernandes stated apart from government assist, it's far Dubai’s high employability opportunities that make it an ideal spot for better education, at the side of the town’s protection and safety.

 

“The notable aspect approximately Dubai is likewise that because the financial system is booming and expanding and they are continually seeking out employees,” he stated. Along with this, Middlesex has a “very competitive employment and profession centre. They prepare college students to be one hundred% employable”.

 

Aryaan Asad, who's reading law on the college, stated the centre gives exclusive activity opportunities for college students and he has managed to at ease several internships via it.

 

Middlesex gives complete time and element time options, in addition to nighttime instructions and flexible payment plans.

 

Another option open to Dubai college students is the government’s ‘Earn While You Learn’ programme.

 

“The initiative changed into launched in Dubai in 2016 … students are able to advantage precious paintings enjoy in their chosen discipline even as analyzing,” defined Dr Al Karam.

 

“For many students, this gives them priceless insights on their future profession trajectory. Students also are able to advantage vital contacts of their subject to help them relaxed employment after commencement.”

 

He brought that having relevant paintings revel in previous to commencement facilitates improves college students’ employment possibilities. In addition, incomes a income even as reading facilitates students to better manipulate and plan their finances.

 

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Dr Fernandes said scholar visas are very bendy as they allow students to intern at various companies and “because talent is pretty scarce”, as soon as a student gets in as an intern, the enterprise is probable to sponsor their paintings visa once they graduate.

 

“If they discover, say, a information scientist who's certainly top the employer will supply them a visa because they don’t need to lose this talent”.

 

In reality, he says there's a real combat for skills.

 

“In the tech zone, there's a scarcity of talent because in the ultimate five years, Dubai has been positioning itself as a tech and innovation centre in robotics, AI and facts technology.”