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Bringing 
business expertise 
back home

Is the balance of power for business education now shifting in the Gulf States? As the traditional destination for aspiring MBA students in the last thirty years, US schools such as Harvard, Wharton and Tuck could rely upon a steady stream of applicants from the Middle East each year, with little competition from elsewhere.

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In Expansion Mode

‘in the next few years Manipal University will be an education force to reckon with in Dubai’’ may sound ambitious in an Emirate known for the most international branch campuses. But Director B. Ramjee backs his statement by underscoring the increase in enrolments and a plan to build a new state-of-the-art campus by 2011 to meet the demand.

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Rash With Cash

A weekend at the mall for a teenager = Dh50 on food, Dh400 for a pair of branded sneakers, Dh300 on that chic outfit or a pair of sunglasses and there’s still some cash left to splurge on a new mobile phone that has hit the market.

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CBSE Class X Students to Be Graded on New System

DUBAI - Class X students of the Indian Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) do not have to battle it out for percentages this year as they will be evaluated according to a new grading system that the board has introduced for the final examinations, beginning this week.

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