Middle East To Be A Knowledge Hub

Dubai's ruler has recently been an announcement of the donation of $ 10 billion for a newly formed education body. The idea behind this love is to raise the standards of training and create more jobs for the Arab peoples. The Foundation, named after the name of the ruler, the Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum Foundation is expected that the Human Development in the Middle East to work. According to Sheikh's own words, Arabs needed a "knowledge society to develop, to meet the challenges of the new millennium will be.There is a growing fear in the Arab world that a lack of education and scientific research could affect their economic growth.

Despite reaching a fair deal of economic growth in recent decades, the Arab world is still adamant includes the adoption of the world outside influences that modern education and scientific know-how. You can cooperate with the outside world for economic reasons, would not allow, however, that in combination with a growthfurther. The prevalence of orthodox Islam makes it difficult for them to have any significant exchange with the outside world. As a result, many look at modern education with a hint of suspicion. There is a growing awareness of the people more aware, however, that this attitude could be a disaster here.

One can easily understand the reason of this growing concern by the educational scenario in the Arab world. While the illiteracy rate among Arab womenmore than 40%, the quality of education for those who read and not very encouraging. The number of books in the entire Arab world is less than what it alone can make to Turkey. The gap in our knowledge of the Middle East from that of developed Asia and the West are mind boggling. There is no room for complacency on the left more, and a company needs serious reforms in the field of modern education. As per Sheikh even she could no longer ignoreImportance of modern education, there was much of the outside world is already a big step ahead in this area.

The proposed foundation is expected to develop not only the formation but also more jobs. Most of the Arab world is a rapid population growth and needs to generate 15 million jobs directly. This lack of jobs could be up to 80 million by the year 2035. It was an urgent need for creating more awareness among the entrepreneurs, therefore, and allow them tohave a better education. Growing infrastructure was already the highest priority by most Arab states, would help but not in the long run to when they had to take a strong workforce by ethnic Arabs willing to charge.

Sheikh Mohammed, who is also known for his keen interest of racehorses, announced his latest charity plan at the World Economic Forum, organized recently in Jordan. It is considered one of the largest donations of its kind in the history of man. It willto wait until now how much this could in developing the knowledge base to help the Middle East.