The projected increase in the estimated number of job opportunities in the region is making is imperative to focus on quality education. By the year 2010, it is estimated that there will be almost 100 million job opportunities in the Middle East. With the recent release of this statistic, the U.A.E. government has stepped up efforts to attract foreign educational institutions. They are focusing attention on the need for high quality education to supply a highly skilled work force to fill these positions.
With the establishment of Dubai Knowledge Village (which includes the renowned Academic City as have I previously mentioned) Dubai has certainly taken on the responsibility of nurturing the region’s talent pool and supporting its exponential growth. Dubai’s all-encompassing Knowledge Village is the world’s only economic free zone wholly focused on professional training in dozens of educational fields, specifically pharmaceuticals and other medicines as well as technology. The smaller International Academic City, which hosts 20 additional foreign organizations that are currently under construction or in the late planning process, is a unique cluster solely for graduate level institutions. The ultimate goal of the two free zones is to double the amount of universities currently in Dubai and serve at least 25,000 students by 2012.
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