Higher education institutions in the United Arab Emirates say they want to correct an “imbalance” in the types of courses students are being offered and make more humanities subjects available, write Daniel Bardsley and Hassan Hassan in The National. There should be more science and liberal arts courses, officials said, as figures showed that more than 60% of programmes at universities were in business, information technology and engineering.
A study by the Emirates Centre for Strategic Studies and Research (ECSSR) found that business administration courses made up 25% of the total offered by universities. Information technology and computer engineering courses constituted 19%, while engineering accounted for 18%. In all, 276 university courses were analysed.
The study excluded the Paris-Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi and the forthcoming New York University Abu Dhabi, each of which has a humanities focus. It also did not include universities in free zones such as Dubai International Academic City or Ras al Khaimah Free Trade Zone.
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Source: University World News, Issue No: 0091 06 September 2009
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