Watch: Zayed University’s interdisciplinary curriculum designed for UAE’s future job market

Watch: Zayed University’s interdisciplinary curriculum designed for UAE’s future job market

Dubai: Critical thinking and problem-solving are top skills that employers hiring look for in fresh graduates, according to a senior academic at Zayed University. Prof. Michael Allen, Acting Vice President, said employers are hiring students with interdisciplinary credits and therefore has introduced it as a new curriculum at the university. “We have launched an exciting new Interdisciplinary curriculum and we look forward to seeing its success. We have committed faculty and academic leaders who are convinced that this is a course much needed for the future job market in the UAE and globally,” said Allen. Zayed University established in 1998 has a total enrolment of 9,473 students across its Abu Dhabi and Dubai Campus. The University has a faculty to student ratio of 1:12. In an interview with Gulf News, Allen said employers are looking for employees who are ready to learn more. “A good number of skills that are required for success in today’s job market will be outdated in five years from now. So the need of the hour with respect to universities is to provide varied programmes to equip their students with the latest skills,” he said. Prof. Paul Hopkinson – Dean of the new College of