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As one of the world’s most influential business hubs, the Middle East requires expert attention. Business Extra provides those experts, as well as news and insights from The National’s esteemed team of business editors and reporters, who are on top of the markets, technology, the energy sector and more.
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Wednesday Aug 25, 2021
Start-ups, AI and social change: Zayed University X Minerva
Wednesday Aug 25, 2021
Wednesday Aug 25, 2021
Students at Zayed University began a new bachelor's degree programme on Tuesday. It is the first stage in a plan to transform the way the Abu Dhabi university teaches students over the next five years. The course is designed to build skills in critical thinking and project management, alongside studies in entrepreneurship, artificial intelligence and social change. The programme is a tie-up with US education provider Minerva Project, called Zayed University X Minerva.
"For the last 30 years universities have done an abysmal job at training their graduates for the present," Ben Nelson, the founder and chief executive of the Minerva Project, told host Kelsey Warner on this week's Business Extra.
"We need graduates who are prepared for this world right now. And we have to acknowledge that universities fall woefully short in that order." He said Zayed University "not only recognised, but decided that they had to do something about it".
Hosted by Kelsey Warner
Produced by Arthur Eddyson and Ayesha Khan
In this episode:
Challenges and opportunities for students and recent graduates (1m 05s)
Zayed University x Minerva partnership (2m 56s)
The Minerva way of education (6m 54s)
Future-proofing careers (12m 35s)
- UAE jobs and salaries: who is applying and how much should they earn?
- Zayed University to transform the way it teaches students over the next five years
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Wednesday Aug 18, 2021
Solutions to youth unemployment in the Middle East
Wednesday Aug 18, 2021
Wednesday Aug 18, 2021
The numbers are striking: over the next 20 years, 127 million young people will enter the labour force in the Middle East and North Africa, but face an unemployment rate of 23 per cent. At the same time, nearly 29 million jobs are at risk of being displaced by 2030 because of automation.
In a new report McKinsey lays out solutions to address the issue of youth unemployment in a changing labour market.
Tom Isherwood, a senior partner at the consultancy, joins co-hosts Mustafa Alrawi and Kelsey Warner this week to discuss how to give dignity and purpose to this rising generation.
In this episode:
Overview of recommendations (0m 47s)
Can the region work together? (6m 54s)
Political challenges (9m 25s)
Youth ambition and what the next generation wants (14m 00s)
- Five ways to reverse decades of youth unemployment in the Middle East
- Abu Dhabi's Adio in talks with 'dozens' of companies to set up innovation and R&D centres
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Wednesday Aug 11, 2021
Clean hydrogen explained
Wednesday Aug 11, 2021
Wednesday Aug 11, 2021
In this episode:
Code red (0m 56s)
Hydrogen energy opportunities (2m 33s)
Hurdles to overcome (7m 16s)
Who is paying for the development of Hydrogen? (9m 28s)
Race towards 2050 (20m 10s)
- Adnoc to sell blue ammonia to Japan's Idemitsu as part of hydrogen strategy
- Britain must double hydrogen production to meet net-zero target
- Climate change: 'Code red for humanity' as UN report warns of disaster
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Wednesday Aug 04, 2021
Can robots care? A conversation with the World Economic Forum's head of AI
Wednesday Aug 04, 2021
Wednesday Aug 04, 2021
Do robots care? What should companies keep in mind before using facial recognition or machine learning? Can new laws being mulled in the EU protect citizens from fast-changing technology?
Kay Firth-Butterfield, the head of AI and machine learning at the World Economic Forum, joins host and The National's Future Editor, Kelsey Warner this week to field these questions, and more.
In this episode:
Who is Kay Firth-Butterfield? (0m 38s)
The benefits of AI (1m 09s)
Problems which come with AI (4m 38s)
Policy making in AI (12m 02s)
Ethics and AI (19m 18s)
- EU's plan to control artificial intelligence 'will have positive global impact'
- MBZUAI president: Artificial intelligence can transform health care and energy
- US: lethal attack on ship in Arabian Sea used explosive drones
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