Hili Rayhaan by Rotana has appointed Jerry John Kurien as the new Human Resources Manager. Born in India, Jerry graduated from Christ College, Bangalore, India with a Bachelor’s degree in Hotel Management and Master’s degree in Strategic Human Resources at the University of Wollongong, UAE in 2014. With 13 years of experience in the hospitality […]
Qatar Tourism has launched an education campaign in collaboration with Qatar Foundation and Qatar University to promote Qatar as a world-class education hub. The campaign targets students and parents in the region and is designed to showcase why they should consider studying in Qatar. Qatar aims to showcase the country’s leading accredited university offerings and […]
Silatech and University of Doha for Science and Technology (UDST) established a collaboration agreement to support youth economic empowerment in Qatar through bridging the gap between employers and job seekers and develop their professional skillset to be competitive in the job market. Dr. Salem Al-Naemi, President of UDST and Hassan Ali AlMulla, CEO of Silatech […]
More than 120 hospitality leaders and tourism experts will address the industry’s hottest topics at the much-anticipated Future Hospitality Summit (FHS), which debuts at Madinat Jumeirah in Dubai by bringing together over 900 hospitality investment decision makers from 19 to 21 September. Featuring a topflight line up of presentations and insight from government leaders, hotel […]
As part of the university’s efforts to build the hub of French education in Egypt & the region, UFE have received the official recognition from the Supreme Council of the Licence of Sorbonne Nouvelle, adding it to its partners of top-ranking French universities. This Licence in 3 years is recognized like the Egyptian Licence with […]
The University of Manchester Middle East Centre in Dubai has welcomed its latest (July 2022) intake of Global Part-time MBA students, including the largest cohort of female students since launching the Centre in 2006. More than 85 students were enrolled with female business professionals accounting for more than a quarter of the total – all […]
Aspiring tech hubs must enact measures that both create traction quickly and that sustain growth and development in the future. The United Arab Emirates 96% of whose tech workforce is composed of immigrants exemplifies the benefits of a well-planned, comprehensive strategy for developing a tech hub that deploys both short- and long-term levers. In a […]
The future is bright for the Middle East&Africa’s stationery market, with a new report predicting the sector will achieve annual growth of 3.2 percent over the next six years to reach a regional record worth of US $12.93 billion. The report, by event knowledge partner 6Wresearch, makes for optimistic reading but points to shifts needed […]
The outbreak of COVID-19 required health and safety protocols that encouraged colleagues to work remotely has shone the spotlight on the importance of tailored wellness programmes which support colleagues, particularly working mothers, to cope better with the added mental health challenges. According to a recent study by Deloitte, 40% of South African women feel burnt out, while […]
Twenty-five students from Texas A&M University at Qatar, a Qatar Foundation partner university, and eight students from the main campus in College Station participated in the Texas Summer Research Experience program. In this exchange program, students from the Doha campus were matched with research teams on the College Station campus and given an opportunity to […]
