The Arabian Gulf Changing Cultural Landscape for the Better!:)

In the face of Global financial troubles within the US and closer to home in Europe and UK...The UAE seems well sheltered, keeping its distance away from its troubled neighbouring countries in the Middle East...  

Quite right...Keeping focused on national stability and growth, health progress...and mostly high education on the rise, ensuring nationwide technical and knowledge skilling of its wealthy population.

The UAE has achieved a global high ranking for its national education system, with about Dhs 3.9 billion of the federal budget being allocated to the needs of its universities, colleges, targeting mostly its nationals Emiratis; the country has moved forward in leaps and bounds in its holistic approach to improving standards of living through improving its core countrywide demands for high levels of healthcare and overall competitive HE systems.

Since the new millennium, the UAE including mainly the capital Abu Dhabi, and it's flourishing neighbouring Emirates, Dubai have expanded on it's education, vocational training and human resources needs by adapting its national requirement to meet future needs in high skills and professional expertise. These have seen a rise not only in the habitual male oriented, father figure and head of the family main breadwinner; but equally so for a growing number of a budding generation Y of highly educated young Emirati ladies turned ambitious and highly motivated to take on the business world in leadership, seniority and equal gusto, if not more so then their male Emirati fellow citizens and counterparts!

These facts have been strongly reaffirmed, time and time again, in education forums  and with head of states complete blessings, as Sheikh Nahyan expressed his clear sentiments on educating women in his beloved country:

"In the UAE we are strongly committed to empowering our female students," Sheikh Nahyan said. "In all levels of our education system, there are more female students than male...For our country to be successful, all our students male and female, must have the education that will help them contribute to the society in line with their talents and goals..."

In view of the current statistics, facts and figures within business markets and models, the female achievements and surge of girls successful high attainment in their schools and universities; high expectations have been construed on their abilities to take their gained knowledge and refined skills from the theories of academia, and into the real world of business demands and supplies, thus ensuring productive business models in Enterprise Challenge & Global Partnerships applied on the ground, along sustainable long term competitiveness in the assets and natural resources of the country.

With these promising open formative educational and business strategies, establishing a solid link between academia and corporations couldn’t have been more auspicious for both Emiratis men and women. In fact, these are turning to be a great beneficial spill over, reaching a wider net of multinational young citizens of all background and nationalities residing in the UAE alongside fellow Emirati citizens, and much beyond, into the global arena made much more accessible since the latest technologies have in fact reduced the international world into a Global Village!    

The need is obvious, young graduates in their third to fourth year at universities and colleges will need to consider seriously the implications of their degree! Work prospects looming near, and time will soon come for them to take part in serious business undertakings, showcasing their learning, consolidating on their acquired knowledge into further vocational apprenticeship. These will need to be constantly updated,  reinforcing valuable high skills, consistent successful models and commendable work ethics into everyday viable employment expertise. 

Demands are expanding and the needs are growing to maintain running efficiently the business engines of the national economy, keeping the financial sectors from banks to investments well within a sustainable ongoing state of affluence influx!

The employment mechanism of the national economy depends on it! So are the good lives, national and family expectations of each and every student, turned proud graduate and into an accomplished executive, co-leading the future wealth and growth of their much awaited flourishing destiny within the borders of their country.

These will certainly be much better assisted through well devised and well constructed business coaching and career mentoring programmes.

Unlike most neighbouring Arab countries, the UAE has been opening doors, making allowances and acting as an amazing progressive engine, moving forward with great confidence and pride, showing off its great accomplishments as the tasks at hand require. These are starting to bear some growing effects of prejudice against the gender norm of corporate discrimination, gradually shedding the previous old fashioned and unproductive acts against the female executive in favour of the more dominant and reassuring male figure head.

At the moment, Leadership may still remain predominantly with its male superstars, however, despite persistent reservations by some observers in various industries, the female diplomacy is in full swing, very much adamant towards changing the business Arabian landscape for the better!