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  Two universities have allocated 40 places for prisoners in emirate Dubai Police have signed agreements with two universities in the emirate to offer third level education to inmates. American University in the Emirates and Hamdan bin Mohammed Smart University will offer degree courses for prisoners. The four-year degree programmes are being offered in subjects including business administration and accounting. Dubai Police have secured 40 places for inmates at the two universities, said Brig Ali Al Shamali, director of punitive and correctional establishments at Dubai Police. He said costs for the courses have been eliminated for each prisoner, who will be able to connect with the university lectures through remote access. “We will handle the fees for expatriate inmates and, as they can’t be physically present in universities, they will be able to join online,” said Brig Al Shamali. If a prisoner completes their sentence before the end of the course, the universities have agr...

  In the UK, one in three teachers quit the profession within five years of qualifying Schools in the UAE are having to deal with a worldwide shortage of well-qualified teachers, as head teachers struggle to recruit talent. When schools advertise for a teaching position, they get hundreds of applications — but only a handful are qualified or match the criteria, according to UAE principals. The world was already going through a shortage of teachers before the pandemic, which exacerbated the situation. Many teachers around the world have been quitting the profession due to burnout, work pressure, low wages and extra duties because of unfilled vacancies. According to Unesco figures from 2016, nearly 69 million new teachers were needed to provide quality universal primary and secondary education by 2030. Deepika Thapar Singh, head teacher at Credence High School in Dubai said: “There is a shortage of good teachers across the world and that same shortage is what we feel here. “It is n...

  Developers advised to listen to educators to come up with effective solutions to their problems Teachers need to be at the centre of decision-making in education, particularly when technology is being introduced into classrooms, a global summit was told on Friday. About 36,000 teachers and educators came together for the Teacher Tech Summit 2022, an online conference for teachers. The meeting was organised by T4 Education, a platform for educators and schools, and co-hosted by the World Bank and Owl Ventures, a venture capital firm that focuses on education technology. Vikas Pota, founder of T4 Education and the Teacher Tech Summit, said: “In all the conferences I’ve been to around the world, I never once saw a teacher invited to be a part of the EdTech discussion. “You always see policymakers, CEOs, tech entrepreneurs and investors. But it’s teachers who are on the front line, delivering education to the next generation. “If governments and tech companies want to know what ...