Culture & Education | Monday 2 April, 2018 2:00 pm

GEMS Education students set Guinness World Records title to recognise the US$1 million Global Teacher Prize

Close to 2,000 students across GEMS Education schools in the UAE gathered to form the ‘Largest Human Image of a Hashtag symbol’ – setting another Guinness World Records title – to celebrate the Varkey Foundation’s Global Teacher Prize 2018.   The 1,927...

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Culture & Education | Monday 2 April, 2018 4:37 am

NAMA Calls for Applicants to Badiri Business Entrepreneurship Programme

The Badiri Education and Development Academy has announced that applications are now open for the Entrepreneur Development Camp, the first phase of the Badiri Business Entrepreneurship Programme (BBEP), which focuses on building the capacity of women residing in various locations in the Emirate of...

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Culture & Education | Monday 2 April, 2018 2:13 am

Discussing Education Research in the Gulf: The Eighth Biannual Gulf Comparative Education Society Symposium to Take Place in Ras Al Khaimah

The Gulf Comparative Education Society (GCES) is holding its Eighth Biannual Symposium April 7-9, 2018 at the Hilton Garden Inn in Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates. The Symposium’s theme, “Public, Private, and Philanthropy: Exploring the Impact of New Actors on Education in the...

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Culture & Education | Sunday 1 April, 2018 3:03 pm

Effat University Annual Career Fair offers job seekers first hand opportunity to meet with potential employers

Effat University is hosting its 17th Annual Career Fair on the 2nd and 3rd of April 2018, under the gracious patronage of Her Royal Highness of Princess Lolowah Al Faisal. Held on the university campus, the event is open to the public and males and females can attend to get an up-close and personal ...

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Culture & Education | Sunday 1 April, 2018 2:43 pm

Dubai Culture Concludes Successful 8th Edition of SIKKA Art Fair

Dubai Culture & Arts Authority (Dubai Culture), the Emirate’s dedicated entity for culture, arts and heritage, has successfully concluded SIKKA Art Fair 2018, which was attended by a record number of over 45,000 visitors, and saw more than 1,500 people participating in over 50...

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Culture & Education | Sunday 1 April, 2018 1:33 pm

Kalimat Publishing Promotes Arabic Books in Italy

Kalimat Publishing, a UAE-based publishing house and an imprint of Kalimat Group, dedicated to publishing and distributing quality Arabic children’s books, recently concluded its participation in the 56th edition of the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, which concluded recently in Bologna,...

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Culture & Education | Sunday 1 April, 2018 1:04 pm

Emirates Publishers Association Discusses Opportunities for Copyright Deals with International Publishers

The Emirates Publishers Association (EPA) recently organised a matchmaking session with Brazilian publishers in collaboration with the ‘1001 Titles’ initiative and the Brazilian Publishers Association to discuss possible opportunities for copyright deals between Emirati...

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Culture & Education | Sunday 1 April, 2018 3:59 am

MODUL University Dubai offers scholarships, study grants and paid internships worth AED 1,000,000 to mark Year of Zayed

MODUL University Dubai, the first Austrian University in the Middle East which offers cutting-edge education programs across different fields, has announced academic merit scholarships worth AED 1 million apart from exclusive study grants and guaranteed paid internships to students to mark the Year ...

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Culture & Education | Sunday 1 April, 2018 3:23 am

Sharjah Arab Children Forum concludes with folklore shows, workshops and cultural exchange

The 13th edition of the Sharjah Arab Children Forum, organized by Sharjah Children of Rubu' Qarn for Creating Future Leaders and Innovators, came to an end with a closing ceremony at Sharjah Girl Guides that featured folklore shows from around the Arab world, as well as a number of other...

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Culture & Education | Saturday 31 March, 2018 3:33 am

SCD Enhances Scientific Literacy in Children through 
Hands-On Workshops at “Sharjah Arab Children’s Forum”

The main agenda of the 13th edition of the Sharjah Arab Children’s Forum, which is underway, is to address the issue of sustainability by highlighting the importance of science and technology in children’s lives and show how this field can help to stimulate thinking, innovation and...

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