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Ed Webb

Fears over education's gender gap - The National Newspaper - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 06 Nov 09 - Snapshot
  • Emirati boys are posting lower examination scores and dropping out of high school at a much greater rate than Emirati girls, newly released research shows.

    It also found that among pupils who complete secondary schooling, many fewer boys go on to a university education.
  • although 70 per cent of Emirati girls enrol at university after high school, the figure for boys is only 27 per cent.

  • The drop-out rates are highest in Grade 10, the first non-compulsory year of school, when many boys abandon their education to pursue jobs in the public sector.

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  • “By no means does this study imply that girls have an outstanding quality of education either,” she said. “I would say that neither boys nor girls are receiving the best education that they could in government schools.”
  • Dr Ridge recommended that the Ministry of Education should look at improving the quality of its expatriate teaching force, getting more Emirati men to become teachers, and making schools more attractive to pupils.
  • The Armed Forces and police were a “very attractive” career choice for some because they required minimal education
  • Emiratis make up only one per cent of the UAE’s private sector workforce. The public workforce is 85 per cent Emirati.
  • Ed Webb
    Ed Webb on 06 Nov 09
     
    What are the implications of an undereducated population for media and governance?
Elizabeth Sick

BBC NEWS | Middle East | UAE fines mother over baby death - 0 views

news.bbc.co.uk/...8032780.stm

UAE Women

shared by Elizabeth Sick on 07 May 09 - Snapshot
  • The Lebanese woman, who was nine months pregnant at the time, was also ordered to pay blood money. She said she had not caused the accident.
  • The judge based the ruling on Islamic law. The court said the rights of unborn babies needed to be protected.
  • Dubai's traffic court ordered the bereaved mother to pay US$5,450 in blood money and fined her for "unintentional homicide".
  • Elizabeth Sick
    Elizabeth Sick on 07 May 09
     
    Because of Islamic law in the United Arab Emirates, a woman nine months pregnant was actually charged with manslaughter after the unborn baby was killed in a car accident.
Katie Kiraly

BBC NEWS | Middle East | Audio slideshow: Fatima's story - 0 views

news.bbc.co.uk/...7966086.stm

UAE sexual abuse women

shared by Katie Kiraly on 27 Mar 09 - Snapshot
  • Katie Kiraly
    Katie Kiraly on 27 Mar 09
     
    Fatima contacted the BBC World Service citizen journalism project, Your Story, because she wanted to share her experiences of sexual abuse growing up within a strict Muslim family in Abu Dhabi.
Katie Kiraly

Middle East News | Dubai jails British woman for adultery - 0 views

www.alarabiya.net/...68621.html

UAE women adultery law

shared by Katie Kiraly on 18 Mar 09 - Snapshot
  • "A mother convicted of an honor crime usually forfeited her right to apply for custody," a lawyer, Abdulhamid al-Kumaity, told the National.
  • Katie Kiraly
    Katie Kiraly on 18 Mar 09
     
    A British woman faced losing her children after Dubai's top court rejected her second appeal and sentenced her to three months in jail followed by deportation after her husband accused her of adultery
Elizabeth Sick

BBC NEWS | Middle East | Emiratis target 'masculine women' - 0 views

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UAE Homosexuality Girls

shared by Elizabeth Sick on 13 Mar 09 - Snapshot
  • delinquent behaviour
  • That is how the social affairs ministry in the emirates describes what would in some other societies be known as homosexuality or transvestitism.
  • this kind of behaviour could be attributed to a number of causes including the unfair treatment of wives by their husbands and lack of mixing between the sexes.
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  • This, she said, could lead to girls feeling more secure in the company of other girls and some may adopt the male role by having their hair cut short or by putting on a man's voice.
  • Katie Kiraly
    Katie Kiraly on 13 Mar 09
     
    The UAE government has launched a campaign against what it describes as masculine behaviour among women.
  • Elizabeth Sick
    Elizabeth Sick on 15 Mar 09
     
    The government in the United Arab Emirates is showing television programs that display proper behavior for girls. This is in response to transsexual and homosexual activity, or as the UAE puts it, "masculine behavior" in girls that is common throughout the country.
Ed Webb

Driven down by debt, Dubai expats give new meaning to long-stay car park - Times Online - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 09 Feb 09 - Snapshot
  • Dubai is emptying out

  • Heading home

    3.62 million expatriates in Dubai

    864,000 nationals

    8% population decline predicted this year, as expatriates leave

    1,500 visas cancelled every day in Dubai

    62% of homes occupied by expatriates 60% fall in property values
    predicted

    50% slump in the price of luxury apartments on Palm Jumeirah

    25% reduction in luxury spending among UAE expatriates

  • Ed Webb
    Ed Webb on 09 Feb 09
     
    Sign of the times.
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