UAE: Higher education facilities, academic programmes in universities to be restructured

UAE: Higher education facilities, academic programmes in universities to be restructured

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UAE Ministry of Education (MoE) to adopt plans to restructure academic programmes in universities, focusing on developing and improving outputs, achieving advanced global classifications for a more significant number of higher education facilities.

Dr Muhammad Yousef Baniyas, Advisor to the Ministry of Education and director of the Commission for Academic Accreditation, said, "Plans to restructure the academic programmes in universities are in progress for specialised programmes.

"We are currently working on a project to restructure academic programmes and colleges, where the commission has completed the four basic medical programmes, including medicine, pharmacy, dentistry and nursing, engineering, education, and law, administration and commerce in all the university branches."

Baniyas noted that they were currently working on restructuring the Arabic language, Islamic studies, humanities, graduate studies, and general university education courses (first-year courses for students), as well as information technology.

“In addition, our future plans include working on the remaining programmes, especially scientific disciplines (physics, chemistry, biology, and mathematics), as we have not yet begun to restructure them,” he said.

The education official explained that the restructuring includes improving the admission requirements, so that the English language, mathematics, and scientific subjects are a prerequisite for studying certain academic disciplines, while the Arabic language is a condition for