AUD and Harvard partner for 2nd year.Byline: Dubai The American University in Dubai The American University in Dubai (AUD) (in Arabic:الجامعة الأمريكية في دبي ) is a for-profit private educational institute located in Dubai, United (AUD AUD In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Australian Dollar. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. ) has partnered for the second time with the Harvard College Harvard College is the undergraduate section and oldest school of Harvard University, founded in 1636 by the Massachusetts Legislature. The College is instructed by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which also instructs the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. in Asia Program (HCAP HCAP Healthcare-Associated Pneumonia HCAP Healthy Communities Access Program HCAP Hockey Club Ambri Piotta HCAP Halifax Coalition Against Poverty (Canada) HCAP Health Care Action Plans HCAP Host Credentials Authorization Protocol ). After the success of last year's conferences, 10 AUD students have joined several different institutions in Boston from February 7 to 15, to attend HCAP's 2008-2009 conference themed Opportunities and Challenges: Education in a Globalised World. The objective of the conferences is to create unique, global, and holistic experiences that address the same issues in a variety of different approaches. AUD is the only university from the Middle East participating in these conferences. "AUD students are meeting fellow students from across the world, from a different culture in an entirely different environment, to engage in an open exchange of opinions and ideas," said Peggy Awad, external relations manager at AUD. "An exchange of this nature will contribute greatly to the accomplishment of AUD's agenda for promoting diversity in experience and intercultural in·ter·cul·tur·al adj. Of, relating to, involving, or representing different cultures: an intercultural marriage; intercultural exchange in the arts. understanding." Discussions with professors, special workshops, and student-led presentations are important elements of the HCAP academic experience. Additionally, all conferences include a variety of site-seeing excursions, city and campus tours, as well as meetings with top government and business leaders. The social portion is no less vital and includes nightlife night·life n. Social activities or entertainment available or pursued in the evening. nightlife Noun exploration, museum visits, and other unique recreational activities. HCAP, an eight-day program of academic, cultural, and social events organized entirely by students for students, aims at promoting cross-cultural exploration and exchange between Harvard College Students and university students throughout Asia, which includes their partner in the UAE (Uninterruptible Application Error) The name given to a crash in Windows 3.0. In subsequent versions of Windows, a crash was called a "General Protection Fault," "Application Error" or "Illegal Operation." See crash in Windows and abend. : the American University in Dubai. In exchange, over 100 Harvard College students attend seven simultaneous overseas conferences between March and April. As such, from March 21 to 29, AUD will be hosting 15 students from Harvard College.- TradeArabia News Service [c] Copyright 2008 www.tradearabia.com Copyright 2009 Al Hilal Publishing & Marketing Group Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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