A university in the Gulf has announced that it will begin paying students to join its postgraduate courses that specialise in new energy technologies.
While British universities prepare to charge their undergraduates up to £9,000 a year in fees, one university in the United Arab Emirates is so keen to attract students that it will pay them to attend.
The Masdar Institute in Abu Dhabi, which has links with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), opened in 2009. It offers a full scholarship to every student, which covers tuition fees, a laptop, medical insurance, campus accommodation (which, like the rest of Masdar City, is designed by Foster + Partners), one flight home a year and a generous living allowance.
The courses are open to students from Europe and coincide with increased airline routes to Abu Dhabi from German cities Munich and Frankfurt
Currently, the institute offers only postgraduate courses focused on new energy technologies (the whole city is being built by Abu Dhabi’s Future Energy Company), but the oil-rich emirate’s newest university is part of a larger trend. While the governments of countries offering traditional centres of learning, such as the UK and America, struggle to bankroll their universities, Middle Eastern countries keen to diversify their economies away from purely hydrocarbon activities have petrodollars to spend on creating “knowledge economies” and are increasingly showing the will to do so.
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