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Alternative/Complementary or Conventional medicine?

  Over my working years on student advise and counselling, I have not encountered a student who wanted to study herbal medicine or Chinese medicine or the hundreds of alternative medicines out there. I can say with my hands on my…
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EAIE

This is the 6th year that I attend the EAIE (the European Association for International educators) and I pride myself to be a member of this education advocacy organization that works on equality, imagination, peace, love, and most importantly…
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Loving Nature and wild life

Today someone sent me a picture that was heartbreaking, the death of sperm whales by swallowing cars parts and junk thrown in the sea.  I of course recalled few incidents that proves to me that us the humans are the prime problem on earth.   The…
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Studying Dentistry

Dentistry comes from the french word Dent (meaning tooth), and its the student of how to give a person a perfect smile.  If we want to have the biggest nightmare in our lives then we must leave our teeth without checkup. The toothache is one…
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Can you live forever?

History tells us that there are only few people who are still living, I am not going to dwell on that, if you do your google search you will be able to find them, and they are mentioned in the Bible, Quran and the old testoment.  My subject…
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How slogans are used by various universities around the world. 

Slogans are so important in any field, whether, products, services,  business, sports, education, food and many others. Some brands are known by their slogans, eg, “Just do it” is of course Nike’s; “I am worth it” is Loreal, “creating…
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My interview with ICEF Monitor

From the field: Recruiting in Oman 26 Jun 2017 Short on time? Here are the highlights: We continue our “From the Field” interview series today in conversation with Suad Alhalwachi from Education Zone, an education consulting firm…
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Studying is not a choice!

I was attending a graduation ceremony for my nephew.  Of course I remembered mine, my kids', my other nieces and nephews and my friends'.  In one of the ceremonies the mother (my friend that is) started to make arabic chants and I went…
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Learning Arabic

Arabic learning is compulsory at most schools in the Gulf region, even the expat children, who study Arabic in the Gulf are not fluent Arabic speaker and don’t understand the language, so the real causes of this phenomena are worth of…
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Visiting universities could be the best thing we do

Huddersfield university visit Do you know something, every time I visit a university I feel so inspired as not only the buildings and the programmes intrigue me but also the sense of pride the people that work in it feel. I have yet to go…