Culture & Education | Tuesday 8 March, 2016 12:50 pm

Turner Reveals Significant Findings in Kids Compass Study

Turner, a division of Time Warner, has revealed key insights about the entertainment behaviors, spend, attitudes and purchasing power of kids in the Middle East in a new study titled Kids Compass. Leading the way in the children’s entertainment genre with channels such as Cartoon Network and...

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Culture & Education | Tuesday 8 March, 2016 12:30 pm

Palestinians Earn SAP Skills to Support Middle East’s Digital Economy

Palestinian university graduates have earned valuable high-tech skills to support the Middle East’s Digital Economy, thanks to a public-private partnership that graduated its first group of students.   As part of SAP’s Young Professional Program, 18 Palestinians are now...

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Culture & Education | Monday 7 March, 2016 9:05 am

OSN continues to cement content leadership in MENA through new long-term partnership with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios

Film lovers in the Middle East and North Africa region cannot have it any better than on OSN, the leading pay-TV network, as they will now have exclusive access to the expansive roster of movies and future television series from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios (MGM). The renewed long-term deal between...

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Culture & Education | Sunday 6 March, 2016 2:51 pm

Paris-Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi hosts a number of ambassadors and representatives of South American countries

Paris-Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi organized a round table today entitled "The Economic relations between the countries of South America and the United Arab Emirates" in the presence of H.E Dr. Nelson Chaben, Ambassador of Uruguay in the UAE, HE John...

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Culture & Education | Sunday 6 March, 2016 2:42 pm

SKILLS FOR LEARNING, LIFE AND wORK AT HEART OF NEW SCHOOLS PROGRAMME LAUNCHED in Middle east and north africa

HSBC Bank Middle East Limited and the British Council have launched Taqaddam a new schools programme designed to support the development of life skills in 15-16 year olds across the Middle East and North Africa.  A growing body of research is showing that the demand in the working world is...

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Culture & Education | Sunday 6 March, 2016 11:13 am

Netflix Launches Arabic Support for iOS

Netflix is thrilled to announce that it has added Arabic support for iOS enabling its Arabic speaking customers to get the best of Netflix in their own language on their iPads and iPhones. There are now 21 languages available on the Netflix User Interface (UI), and as the company continues...

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Culture & Education | Wednesday 2 March, 2016 2:57 pm

British Council’s ‘Schools Now! Conference’ concludes in Abu Dhabi

There are more than 350 private schools in the UAE catering to over 470, 000 students, of which 81,000 (17%) are Emirati. Interestingly, of the top 14 outstanding schools in Dubai, 10 follow British Curriculum.    These statistics were highlighted on the concluding day of the...

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Culture & Education | Wednesday 2 March, 2016 10:15 am

British Council’s “Schools Now! Conference” calls for narrowing the gap between academic knowledge and workplace skills

Around 200 delegates from across the globe assembled today (Tuesday, 1st March) in Abu Dhabi for the ‘Schools Now! Conference’ organised by British Council’s Partner Schools Network (PSN), a global network of schools, under the theme ‘Empowering Leaders, Teachers and...

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Culture & Education | Wednesday 2 March, 2016 9:47 am

Al Mansouri and Bin Bishir to battle it out in fitting finale to Fazza Youlah Championship this Friday

Bishir bin Rashid bin Bishir and Rashid Bin Harmash Al Mansouri shall contest the final of the Fazza Youlah Championship in the Al Meydan quadrant at Global Village on Friday evening, when the eventually crowned champion will pocket a cool Dh1m. Having originally been plucked from ...

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Culture & Education | Monday 29 February, 2016 5:16 pm

British Council announces the launch of ‘UK UAE Alumni Network’

The British Council in UAE announced the launch of the UK UAE Alumni Network during a reception held at the British Embassy in Dubai.     The event was hosted by Paul Fox, Her Majesty’s Consul General to Dubai and the Northern Emirates and Marc Jessel, Country Director of the...

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