NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) Senior Lecturer of Arabic Nasser Isleem has co-authored a new book titled Role-plays: Communicative Activities for Language and Oral Proficiency Assessment, which is designed to fit the needs of all learners regardless of their age or the language they are learning. The book, which Isleem co-wrote with Associate Professor and Director […]
Students aged 12 years and above who plan to physically attend school next term are required to present a negative Covid-19 PCR test result prior to attending face-to-face classes. Covid-19 PCR testing is also mandatory for teachers and school staff, announced the Abu Dhabi Department of Education and Knowledge (ADEK) today. The decision is the […]
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In celebration of World Arabic Language Day on December 18, NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) has connected with ten current and former students who now speak Arabic as a result of learning the language during their time at the University. Over the past decade, NYUAD has been igniting students’ passion for the fifth most spoken language […]
As part of its comprehensive global event ‘EDU 2030 – Future of Education Series’, Abu Dhabi University (ADU) recently launched the ‘Future Schools 2030’ professional development certificate for high school principals, teachers, and counselors, which has already garnered over 500 participants hailing from more than 24 countries across the world including the US, UK, Canada […]
The Abu Dhabi Department of Education and Knowledge (ADEK) has announced that private and charter school students with chronic medical conditions now have the option to attend physical school for the following term, starting January 2021. The decision is the result of ADEK’s extensive coordination with health authorities in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi to […]
A team of researchers from the NYU Abu Dhabi’s (NYUAD) Smart Materials Lab (SML) led by Professor of Chemistry Panče Naumov has conducted a thorough review of the scientific literature surrounding the natural production of light, called bioluminescence, and developed conclusions that will help others in the field direct their research to uncover the mysteries […]
Our brains respond to language expressing facts differently than they do to words conveying possibility, a team of neuroscientists from NYU New York and NYU Abu Dhabi has found. Its work offers new insights into the impact word choice has on how we make distinctions between what’s real vs. what’s merely possible. “At a time […]
The United Arab Emirates University, UAEU, has made a great global achievement with 32 researchers among the world’s top 2% most cited scientists. The prestigious list was recently published by a Stanford University led research group and ranked top scholars across academic disciplines in 2019. A total 178 UAE scientists have been ranked including 32 […]
Repton Abu Dhabi, part of the prestigious Repton Family of Schools, announces the launch of the region’s first AI driven smart pricing platform for schools, called Artificial Intelligence Driven Algorithm (AIDA). The state-of-the-art smart pricing platform includes an analytics-based approach, which calculates real-time discounts based on contextual academic, operational and behavioural variables derived from historical […]
