The emerging oil and gas industry in Lebanon may have hit a few speed bumps recently, but that hasn’t stopped the country’s universities from starting to think about the industry’s…
Education
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The Middle East, and the Gulf Cooperation Council in particular, is investing heavily in education to tackle high levels of youth unemployment and close the wide gap in skills between…
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My son recently turned 15 and is considering his future. There are perhaps fewer reasons than ever for him to stay in school in Lebanon. We have an education system…
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There is a palpable sense of urgency in the Middle East to improve employment levels and job options for the region’s growing youth population. Half of the Middle East’s population…
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The modern-day obsession with success has hit overdrive in Lebanese schools. While it is a trend that is difficult to quantify, it is obvious to anyone with a child in…
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Since the beginning of the academic year, public school teachers, and many from private schools too, have abandoned their classes on an almost weekly basis and taken to the streets.…
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Minister of Education Hassan Diab is probably not having easy days at the office. On top of the already decrepit state of public education, coupled with ongoing protests by teachers…
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There was a time during the civil war when the Lebanese American University (LAU) did not know if it would have enough money to pay its staff at the end…
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At any given moment in a randomly selected Lebanese café, one will likely spot an eight-year-old girl amusing herself with the newest iPad or other high-tech device. It is difficult…
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Across the years some have argued that the most important factor needed to ensure that people are free — politically, intellectually and creatively free, to be entrepreneurs, inventors and discoverers…