Civic Nationalism and Language-in-Education Policies in the United Arab Emirates

2020 ◽  
pp. 77-103
Author(s):  
Fatima Esseili
Keyword(s):  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Education Policies ◽  
Civic Nationalism

Multi-Country Comparison of ICT and Educational Accessibility for Blind Students

2021 ◽  
pp. 288-304
Author(s):  
Sachin Pavithran ◽  
Maria Hernandez Legorreta
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Development ◽  
Inclusive Education ◽  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Low Vision ◽  
Information And Communications Technology ◽  
Education Policies ◽  
Adequate Funding ◽  
Large Populations

This chapter discusses the importance of information and communications technology (ICT) and educational accessibility for blind and low-vision students, with a focus on policy and implementation strengths, barriers, and areas of improvement in three diverse countries: India, Mexico, and the United Arab Emirates. These three countries each have inclusive education policies, but implementation is lacking. Respective policy development must include implementation plans and adequate funding. Common obstacles include large populations, prejudice, inadequate teacher training, lack of infrastructure, and poverty in rural areas. Common recommendations are recognition that ICT is complex and vital for improved educational access, teacher development, inclusion, and employment outcomes. Notably, these countries must each consider innovative ways for students to access ICT and education. This will take much more concentrated efforts, as well as funding allocations, by governments, organizations, and other stakeholders in the education system.

Globalization of Education in UAE: The Local Legislative Education Policies for International Branch Campuses and Its Tensions Given the Political, Religious, and Cultural Differences

2020 ◽  
pp. 002205742091491
Author(s):  
Sabiha Nuzhat
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Differences ◽  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
The Political ◽  
Steady Increase ◽  
Education Policies ◽  
Branch Campuses ◽  
International Branch Campuses ◽  
Local Students ◽  
Globalization Of Education

Globalization has flourished many sectors of the society, including higher education. This article researches the existing literature of globalization of education in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) with the establishment of international branch campuses (IBCs), particularly in Dubai. UAE has its laws and legislations in place for IBCs which must be followed by all. There are different accreditation boards in UAE that universities undergo based on their type and locality within the country. Due to UAE having a strong political, religious, and cultural context, tensions are faced by IBCs and local students in ensuring the implementation of curriculum borrowed policies. Despite the tensions, it is seen that UAE has a steady increase in the growth of IBCs. This article further researches the tensions and reasons of the success of IBCs in UAE’s context.

scholarly journals Bilingual Policy Implementation in Ras Al Khaimah

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Hall-Chen
Keyword(s):  
Policy Implementation ◽  
Bilingual Education ◽  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Native Language ◽  
School Leaders ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Education Policies ◽  
Government Schools ◽  
Arabic And English

Discourses on globalization and knowledge societies have encouraged an increasing number of governments to institute bilingual education policies to develop citizens’ fluency in English and a native language. To diversify the country’s economic activity, extensive bilingualism in Arabic and English has long been a goal of governments in the United Arab Emirates. Utilizing questionnaires and interviews with school teachers and school leaders, this study investigates the processes by which they are embedding this policy in government schools in the emirate of Ras Al Khaimah.

Ras al Khaimah: further archaeological discoveries

Antiquity ◽  
1976 ◽  
Vol 50 (200) ◽  
pp. 216-222
Author(s):  
Beatrice De Cardi
Keyword(s):  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
The State ◽  
Focused Attention ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City

Ras a1 Khaimah is the most northerly of the seven states comprising the United Arab Emirates and its Ruler, H. H. Sheikh Saqr bin Mohammad al-Qasimi, is keenly interested in the history of the state and its people. Survey carried out there jointly with Dr D. B. Doe in 1968 had focused attention on the site of JuIfar which lies just north of the present town of Ras a1 Khaimah (de Cardi, 1971, 230-2). Julfar was in existence in Abbasid times and its importance as an entrep6t during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries-the Portuguese Period-is reflected by the quantity and variety of imported wares to be found among the ruins of the city. Most of the sites discovered during the survey dated from that period but a group of cairns near Ghalilah and some long gabled graves in the Shimal area to the north-east of the date-groves behind Ras a1 Khaimah (map, FIG. I) clearly represented a more distant past.

Author response for "Upper Cretaceous wedge‐top to foredeep architecture in the United Arab Emirates: Insights from the Faiyah Anticline"

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ibrahim Q. Mohammed ◽  
Sherif Farouk ◽  
Fadhil Lawa ◽  
Mohammad Alsuwaidi ◽  
Sadoon Morad
Keyword(s):  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Upper Cretaceous ◽  
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