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ABU DHABI, 27th December, 2020
— The UAE ranked first in the world in the technical and vocational education and training sector, within the Global Knowledge Index 2022, issued by the United Nations Development Program in cooperation with the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Knowledge Foundation.
This achievement confirms the country’s efforts in implementing the goals of sustainable development and its vision for the technical and vocational education and training system, which is one of the main pillars that contribute to enhancing the country’s competitiveness.
His Excellency Dr. Mubarak Saeed Al Shamsi, Director General of the Abu Dhabi Center for Technical and Vocational Education and Training, said that this achievement reflects the efforts made by the wise leadership in order to achieve the best for the UAE society, and to develop national competencies to ensure a promising and sustainable future for future generations.
He confirmed that the state is progressing in this indicator
https://www.knowledge4all.com/ranking?Id=3&Color=7FC6BB.. due to its superiority in technical and vocational education and training, which includes quality of qualifications, continuous training, skills development, enrollment rate in post-secondary education, and female participation rate in professional programs.
His Excellency raised the highest verses of congratulations and blessings to the wise leadership, which always provides “Abu Dhabi Technical” with all forms of support to develop the center’s strategy in order to enable it to upgrade the technical and vocational education system in the country; To include the quality of outputs, qualifications and performance, and the development of the level of continuous vocational training, in order to hone students’ skills, as well as continuing efforts to increase the percentage of girls and young men attending technical and vocational education.
He added that “Abu Dhabi Technical” is keen to apply all international standards and new ones, to ensure continuous upgrading and to continue innovative efforts to maintain global leadership.
Al Shamsi explained that Abu Dhabi Technical Institute leads an integrated system of applied university institutions, schools of applied technology and training and skills development centers that target citizens at all ages, to be prepared according to the finest curricula and by relying on a system of advanced laboratories to comply with the latest scientific systems, means and methods.
He stressed the center’s keenness to play its role in creating national talent specialized in all kinds of future jobs, and for this main goal; He leads a group of distinguished institutions, including the Fatima College of Health Sciences, Abu Dhabi Polytechnic, and the Schools of Applied Technology.
It is noteworthy that the “Global Knowledge Index” is based on measuring performance rates in seven sectors that have an impact on the production, dissemination and application of knowledge, namely: pre-university education, higher education, technical and vocational education, scientific research and innovation, economic development, information and communication technology, in addition to enabling environments. Supporting the knowledge climate, as the UAE ranked first in technical and vocational education.
