Minister Mitchell O’Connor to address Future Skills Needs and Gender Equality in Higher Education at the World Government Summit in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE)
Posted in Governance and administration on February 9th, 2019 by steve
“Minister Mary Mitchell O’Connor TD Minister of State for Higher Education will attend the seventh edition of the World Government Summit in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (10th and 11th February), to participate in the Advanced Skills Global Policy Platform …” (more)
[Department of Education and Skills, 8 February]
“The United Arab Emirates is now ‘deeply inimical’ to university values, according to a lecturer from the London School of Economics and Political Science who was barred from entering the country …” (
“A top London university has abruptly pulled out of a conference scheduled to be held on Sunday in the United Arab Emirates. The London School of Economics (LSE) cited concerns about restrictions that ‘threatened academic freedom’ …” (
“The recent detention of a Sorbonne lecturer in the United Arab Emirates has rekindled the debate over the nature of academic freedom at Western institutions in the Persian Gulf region and the political impact those institutions, especially the high-profile new campus of New York University in Abu Dhabi, will have …” (
