Tuesday, April 4, 2023 – 1:39 PM
ABU DHABI, 4th April, 2020 (WAM) — Abu Dhabi University and Sky News Arabia Academy signed a memorandum of understanding for joint cooperation in order to enhance the capabilities of students of the College of Arts and Sciences at the university and provide them with the comprehensive knowledge and skills necessary for excellence in the field of media, in a step aimed at preparing media talents and enabling them to deal with future media. In the areas of television and radio work and digital and creative media production.
The memorandum of understanding was signed by Prof. Ghassan Awad, Rector of Abu Dhabi University, Dr. Sreethi Nair, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University, and Nart Puran, Executive Director of Sky News Arabia Academy, in the presence of a number of senior officials from both parties.
This new cooperation comes within the framework of Abu Dhabi University’s permanent commitment to provide its students and faculty members with contemporary academic experiences, and to make the high-level training programs offered by the Sky News Arabia Academy available to students, while the university’s faculty members provide the necessary counseling and advisory services to the students of the Academy.
Abu Dhabi University, through its cooperation with the Sky News Arabia Academy, seeks to enhance its study programs in the field of media by integrating the distinguished programs of the Academy in its university courses with the aim of improving students’ knowledge and refining their skills, thus enabling them to be creative and innovative, while the Academy will provide valuable opportunities for internal training and inform students of the College of Arts. And science at Abu Dhabi University is on the latest technologies in the field of distinguished media industry by inviting speakers from senior experts to hold discussions and dialogue sessions at the university, and organizing field trips for students to the modern facilities of the Academy.
The Academy will provide short-term training courses in various media fields for Abu Dhabi University students and faculty members.
Professor Ghassan Awad, Rector of Abu Dhabi University, confirmed the university’s constant keenness to cooperate with strategic and prestigious partners such as Sky News Arabia Academy, to provide mutual and joint learning experiences to qualify students well to keep pace with the requirements of the labor market and the continuous change and development it is witnessing. He said that this partnership embodies our commitment It is well-established by providing all the means and opportunities that our students need to enrich their academic career, and provide them with practical experiences and valuable knowledge in the field of media.
For his part, Nart Bouran, Executive Director of the Sky News Arabia Academy and International Media Investments, said that the aim of launching the Sky News Arabia Academy is to enable talented and professional people to hone their abilities in the fields of communication, radio and television presentation, and digital journalism. To keep abreast of the latest technologies and developments in the field of information and communication technology. The beginning of cooperation with Abu Dhabi University was represented in the launch of internship initiatives, more than a decade ago. Today, we are proud to renew our partnership with this prestigious university through a valuable program that will provide wonderful opportunities for students and young talents to advance their level. In the field of media and enriching their creative tools, we look forward to more constructive cooperation.
Sky News Arabia Academy seeks to empower the future generation of journalists, digital experts, media professionals, and documentary filmmakers, and provide them with quality programs that qualify them to create promising media and anticipate its transformations, by offering more than 30 diverse and specialized courses distributed in four main categories and available in Arabic, namely: Media digital, technical operations, television production, and radio production.
The College of Arts and Sciences at Abu Dhabi University offers undergraduate and postgraduate programs in the fields of media and education, and the college provides compulsory courses for all other colleges in the university for all undergraduate students in the fields of English, science, mathematics and statistics.
Asim Al-Khouli / Ahmed Gamal
