Meet the man leading Zayed University’s move into a new kind of education – The National

Meet the man leading Zayed University’s move into a new kind of education – The National

As the UAE works to transform its economy, higher education will have a central role in ensuring that employers have a pool of skilled jobseekers to draw on.

Zayed University, one of the country’s three federal universities, has taken its responsibilities in this regard seriously by introducing what some might see as a radical curriculum.

Traditional subject divisions are being put aside with, instead, the university offering four interdisciplinary programmes — business transformation, social innovation, computational systems and sustainability — to Emirati and non-Emirati applicants.