Training
The large revenues from oil exports have
enabled extensive investment in education. Teacher
density in the country is among the highest in the
world. The majority of teachers are foreigners. But the
government's goal is to increase the proportion of
domestic teachers to 90 percent.
All tuition at all levels, including university
education for the thousands of students studying abroad,
is free of charge for citizens, as are books, school
uniforms, food and school transfers. Parents are even
paid to send the children to school. School duty is
valid for nine years from the age of six. Subsequently,
three years of voluntary studies follow at the
corresponding upper secondary level. Despite the many
benefits, not all students complete their undergraduate
education.
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Large resources have been invested in the 2010s to
improve teaching in the school and to develop digital
learning, among other things, all students would have
their own tablet for 2017 and a comprehensive homework
help program in various subjects would be posted on
Youtube. More than a third of the country's schools are
run privately. Private schools can follow curricula from
other countries and conduct education in other
languages, but must also teach Arabic.
Among the students completing upper secondary
education, 95 percent of girls and 80 percent of boys
continue on to higher education. Education is
gender-segregated within the state education at all
levels except preschools, while private schools are open
to both genders.
The country gained its first university in 1977 in
the oasis city of al-Ayn, Abu Dhabi. Ten years later,
two state universities, dedicated exclusively to women,
were opened. In addition, there are technical
educational institutes and a large number of private
colleges. French Sorbonne opened a branch in Abu Dhabi
in 2006 as well as American New York University.
More than three-quarters of the students in the
country are women and almost the same proportion of the
country's women continue to study at higher stages after
high school. The families choose to have their sons more
than daughters study abroad to a greater extent.
FACTS - EDUCATION
Proportion of children starting primary
school
94.6 percent (2016)
Number of pupils per teacher in primary
school
25 (2016)
Reading and writing skills
90.0 percent (2005)
Public expenditure on education as a
percentage of GDP
5.0 percent (1997)
Public expenditure on education as a
percentage of the state budget
5.0 percent (1997)
2013
September
Hunger strike in prison
Amnersty International reports that 18 of the people sentenced to prison in
July for planning an Islamic takeover of power are now starving. Six of them
began the hunger strike shortly after the verdict fell.
July
More arrested
Three more people are arrested on suspicion of belonging to the Islamist
group al-Islah.
May
Twitter posts give prison
A man has been arrested and sentenced, according to the organization
Reporters Without Borders, to two years in prison for tweeting about the mass
trial that began in March.
March
Mass trial against suspected Islamists
A lawsuit is initiated against 94 people accused of planning to overthrow the
emir and instead set up an Islamic regime based on Islamic law, Sharia. Among
the defendants are two well-known human rights lawyers, judges, teachers and
students. Many of them belong to the Islamist group al-Islah. According to the
government, they must have formed a secret cell with close ties to the religious
and political movement, the Muslim Brotherhood, which is based in Egypt and is
banned in much of the region. International human rights organizations criticize
the trial. In July, 69 of the defendants are sentenced to up to 15 years in
prison.
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