Highlights from the Gulf News Edufair 2023

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Visitors at the Gulf News Edufair were full of praise for the event, which attracted thousands of families, speakers and higher education professionals to sample and discuss university courses, degrees and scholarships for prospective students.  Now in its fifth edition, the Gulf News Edufair, held over three days at the Conrad Hotel, Dubai, and served as a platform to educate and inform guests about opportunities offered by higher education institutions.  Read the full story here: https://gulfnews.com/uae/education/students-explore-future-study-options-at-the-gulf-news-edufair-1.1687094857975  See more videos at https://gulfnews.com/videos Read more Gulf News stories here: https://bit.ly/2HLJ2km  Subscribe to Gulf News on YouTube and watch more of our videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/GulfNewsTV  #UAEnews #Dubai #education

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00:00Hello everyone this is Anjana Kumar. I'm here at the Gulf News EduFair which is taking place at

00:05the Conrad Hotel in Sheikh Zayed Road until June 18th. We have 30 universities participating this

00:11year at EduFair. It is a great platform for parents, teachers and students to come here

00:16and understand what's happening in the education industry and to see where a child is best fit to

00:23go in for a university. So if you have a child at home looking to get into a university then EduFair

00:29is the place. We are here to contribute to the educational sector in all senses especially the

00:34EduFair of Gulf News. We showcase our capabilities, our accreditations and how we go into the market

00:42and we meet the students and the parents and we discuss many things, the future of the students.

00:48Sometimes we even advise them to go somewhere else if we don't have that discipline. At the

00:52end there's a very excellent platform for the faculty members, for the universities,

00:57for the students, for the parents and for the industry. This event today is an important

01:03outlet for universities like ourselves to exhibit the programmes and talk about the

01:07the leading edge and cutting edge modes of delivery and also pedagogies that are introducing

01:14and as we think about the future and particularly where we are now in the fourth

01:18industrial revolution and preparing students and graduates for the future workplace we need to make

01:23sure that our pedagogies are aligned, our teaching methods are aligned to those needs and of course

01:27that means making sure that not just that the subject areas are appropriate but also the skills

01:33that we're developing within the students are really critical and particularly at ZU we're

01:39heading towards completely interdisciplinary programmes recognising that many of the

01:44world's problems that we face today need interdisciplinary solutions and skills-based

01:50approaches. So I'm excited to be here to be able to share a little bit about my story and hopefully

01:55inspire and empower younger generations to feel comfortable with who they are and the decisions

02:00that they're making as they go into that big transition into university and you know it can

02:06be quite overwhelming at times so I hope that by sharing parts of my story it helps. We're very

02:13excited we had a lot of people coming in and visiting us at the booth and we're very happy to

02:18be consistently participating in Gulf News. It's one of the great platforms where international

02:23students and local students come together to know about the programme that is offered at the Zayed

02:26University and we're looking forward to meet you all. I came from India I did an engineering diploma

02:33in electronics and instrumentation so then I after that I came back to Dubai so I started

02:38working for my dad's company which is an instrument instrumentation based company

02:43so in that company I had I'd seen both the both courses I've seen the engineering side of things

02:49and the business side of things and out of those two things I chose the business side

02:53so I came to EduFair here to see what else can I do in business what are the other scopes

02:59and courses like accounting finance or management. So far it's been great I've got a lot more

03:04information than I got online checking out the fees checking out the campuses where they are

03:09and how big they are and what else they can offer on campus. As a parent a good university

03:15proximity also is important and accreditation also so I'm looking at all those things for him.

03:24The Gulf News EduFair has been a great success from very interesting panel discussions like on

03:30the first day we had Jessica Smith a Paralympian talking about why students should feel it's okay

03:37to be not okay. There have been numerous one-to-one interactions with 30 universities

03:45which took part at the Gulf News EduFair all in all all of this made this a great success.

03:51So if you missed the EduFair this time don't worry we have another edition coming up

03:56and we'll keep you posted so if you have a child that is looking to get into university

04:02then just head to the EduFair next time. For now it's a bye this is Anjana Kumar for Gulf News.

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