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Historical Development of Education withinside the United Arab Emirates1
The earliest types of training in today`s United Arab Emirates (UAE) have been the katateeb, extensions of training
in mosques, which targeted on Islamic teachings and the fundamentals of analyzing and writing withinside the former sheikdoms of
the Arabian Gulf2
(AlNaqbi, 2009).
After the formation of the UAE in 1971, the MOE changed into officially installed, growing the primary countrywide training machine. At this time, students, normally younger boys, have been taught through the nearby mutawa`a, a
non secular preacher, or the fiqi, a journeying non secular teacher (Ridge, 2009). As a part of the ongoing effort
to standardize the training machine, the MOE released the country`s National Curriculum Project in 1979, and a countrywide
curriculum changed into carried out through 1985 (Ridge, 2009). In 1912, the primary personal colleges withinside the Trucial States
opened in Dubai and Sharjah (Davidson, 2008). The investment from Sheikh Abdullah Salem al
Sabah additionally brought about the outlet of the country`s first current public college in Sharjah in 1953 (MOE, 2013; Ridge, 2013). When the UAE commenced to modernize its training
machine withinside the early 1970s, it did now no longer have an inner version for current training, so it delivered in outside educational
advisors to recommend the rulers of the emirates. Egyptians have been decided on for those advisory roles because of Egypt`s greater
installed training zone and due to the fact their curriculum changed into gave the impression to provide a greater “localized” training
than Western models (Findlow, 2001). Ras Al Khaimah, UAE The earliest types of training in today`s United Arab Emirates (UAE) have been the katateeb, extensions of training
in mosques, which targeted on Islamic teachings and the fundamentals of analyzing and writing withinside the former sheikdoms of
the Arabian Gulf2
(AlNaqbi, 2009).
With the brand new wealth from pearling, call for for training increased.