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By Aarti Nagraj • Mar 4th, 2010 • Category: Cover Story, Regional, The Work, employmentDespite a slight improvement in gender equality, women make up just 15 percent of the working population in some Gulf states.
Posts Tagged ‘Education’
Despite a slight improvement in gender equality, women make up just 15 percent of the working population in some Gulf states.
How will emiratization succeed?
By Aarti Nagraj • Feb 12th, 2010 • Category: Cover Story, Special reportThe UAE government is struggling to encourage more Emiratis to work in the private sector. But they will first have to change the educational and labor conditions in the country, say analysts.
Saudi’s idle citizens
By Aarti Nagraj • Jan 21st, 2010 • Category: Cover Story, Labor, Saudi Arabia, The WorkThe Kingdom is aggressively trying to promote education in a bid to limit rising levels of unemployment.
Saudi’s “house of wisdom” opens
By Aarti Nagraj • Sep 23rd, 2009 • Category: Cover Story, Education, Saudi Arabia, The LifeThe kingdom’s new university promises to offer an environment where young researchers – both men and women – can work together.
Back to school
By Dana El Baltaji • Aug 19th, 2009 • Category: Cover Story, Education, NationMuch to the chagrin of students across the UAE, the Ministry of Education has clarified that schools that follow international curriculums are not obliged to postpone their academic year to the end of Ramadan.
Moderating chair
By Dana El Baltaji • Jul 29th, 2009 • Category: Cover Story, Education, Regional, Saudi ArabiaKing Abdulaziz University in Jeddah is establishing a chair to study Saudi Arabia's take on moderation.
Fantastic females
By Aarti Nagraj • May 14th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Cover Story, International, The PeopleThe key to driving down the rates of poverty and population growth lies with women, says Jonathan Power in Arab News.
Calling all students
By Aarti Nagraj • Mar 17th, 2009 • Category: Cover Story, Nation, The Work, case studiesAbu Dhabi plans to develop edu- tourism in the emirate. Considering how profitable the industry could be if strategies are implemented correctly, it could work well here.
Please hire Saudis,…please
By Kipp • Nov 25th, 2008 • Category: Cover Story, Labor, The WorkThe Saudi Arabian government is trying every possible means to provide employment to locals in the kingdom.
We don’t need no education?
By Kipp • Nov 6th, 2008 • Category: Cover Story, Labor, The WorkSaudi Arabia says you do. The kingdom has recently decided not to grant work visas to illiterate foreigners, a move which could be disastrous for some, and advantageous for others.
Brands can fly high by wooing students
By Kipp • Sep 23rd, 2008 • Category: Cover Story, Retail, The Life, marketingSeveral marketers in the region believe that reaching out to young adults in their college years is an ideal way to build brand loyalty.
August 15
By Kipp • Aug 15th, 2008 • Category: Best of the web, Cover StoryDubai Homes Trying to Cool Hot Property Market; The Wisdom of Crowds? Still a Bumpy Ride; The Secret of the Web; Olympics: Sold Gold; The iPhone's Next Generation of Apps
