Education conference opens in Abu Dhabi

Educators and labour officials convened on Monday in Abu Dhabi for the three-day Emirates Centre for Strategic Studies and Research's 15th Annual Conference titled 'Education and the Requirements in the GCC Labour Market. The conference will focus on ways to tackle the issue of aligning education with the labour market, confronting the problem of unemployment among nationals in the GCC states, and develop a strategy of labour force 'indigenisation' (substituting the migrant workforce for a national workforce).