TY - BOOK AU - Inam Ur Rahman PY - 2015 CY - Hamburg, Germany PB - Anchor Academic Publishing SN - 9783954899999 TI - The Role of IT in higher Education in Abu Dhabi UR - https://m.anchor-publishing.com/document/307296 N2 - The IT education during the formative years has become a major priority for the UAE. This is underlined by the success of the Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid IT Education Project (ITEP), which was launched in 2000. As well as installing computer labs in all participating schools, and creating a comprehensive cutting-edge curriculum, ITEP also provides an invaluable online educational resource at www.itep.ae. ITEP now provides courses in 40 high schools in the UAE (20 in Dubai, 20 in Abu Dhabi) and over 13,000 students pass through the programme every year. ITEP’s trainee pupils achieved 97 per cent success rate in courses in the 2005/06 academic year. [...] KW - Higher Education, Abu Dhabi, IT education, IT Education Project, ITEP, online education LA - English ER -