Stakeholder Perspectives on Labour Nationalization in UAE Education Sector

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Abdalla Hassan Almarashda, Norliana Sarpin

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This presents a study on evaluating the challenge of UAE education sector on labour nationalisation where the public and private education sectors are dominated by foreign labour. At the same time, participation of locals in the sector is also very low despite the socio-cultural needs and implications of education. This research utilised semi structured questionnaire in interviewing the 12 selected head teachers.  The findings of this study is that English as a medium of instruction offers the best way to rapidly enhance human resource development in the country. There seems to be an overarching desire to fully adapt the English language even if it comes at the expense of fully utilizing local expertise. It also indicated that this has led to a growing perception that cultural factors and imperatives are not as important in developing a locally focused human resource for the country as they used to be. Nevertheless, this is not true because socio-cultural background is inevitably linked to how people think and act from their own distinct socio-cultural and educational paradigm

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