2021: A Large Emirati Engineer Base

By 2015, the UAE will need more than 1,000 Emirati engineers to operate a factory for aircraft fuselage manufacture, which is under construction in Al Ain and require more than 1,200 engineers and technicians to operate four nuclear power plants in 2020. The progress of any economy towards the knowledge requires three stages of developments: Intrinsic basic infrastructure, efficiency in manufacturing then knowledge and innovations On education challenges in the country Humaid Mohammed Obaid Al Qattami, Minister of Education said, the most significant of these is that the school environment is not conducive to learning; the predominance of traditional learning methods; poorly qualified teachers and their lack of training and career development; a shortage of male Emirati teachers; a lack of effective and developed methods of assessment; and poor student counseling. The MoE  (Ministry of Education) has set a 10-year, student-centred strategic plan, which targets universal reform of the education sector. Its objectives comprise increasing student scientific achievements; providing an optimal school environment to students; guaranteeing equity of education opportunities for students; strengthening citizenship; and upgrading competence and administrative efficiency, he said. So, by 2021 the country will require a big Emirati engineer base for their nuclear power stations and aircraft manufacturing.