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We have recently read that 9 or is it 11 people are losing jobs on the Foundation Programme at the Petroleum Institute.

Then we heard that HCT is restructuring its foundation programme but it looks as if it will be Maths and IT that get hit. So is English secure, or just secure for the next couple of years?

There are rumours at UAEU that UGRU is going to be dismantled. That's a regular rumour - comes around every couple of years or so - but this time there seems to be one definite change likely: UGRU courses will no longer be credit bearing as accrediting institutions will not accept it. So potential students can study where they like in order to prepare for and then take IELTS etc. Which possibly means fewer students.

Can anyone confirm or deny all or part of this summary? And what's the situation concerning foundation programmes in other institutions?

Zoot · Joined: 15 Jun 2007 Posts: 408

What you've said probably ties in with the shift in education generally - if ADEC is reforming education, what need is there going to be for Foundation programs in Maths etc., when the subjects are being delivered in English in the school system? I'd have thought it would be a few years from dismantling them completely though.

eha · Joined: 26 May 2005 Posts: 355 Location: ME

...And not before time.

veralynn · Joined: 01 Nov 2007 Posts: 113 Location: Abu Dhabi

It looks like it is maths, physics and chem that are getting hit at the PI where English will now account for approx 80% of foundation. So English is secure there.

turtlepi1 · Joined: 15 Jun 2004 Posts: 94

And (assuming that means students are coming in with those skills from secondary education) that is a good thing!

trapezius · Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 1:47 pm Post subject:

mishmumkin · Joined: 01 Sep 2007 Posts: 929

Nope. They're not going anywhere. In fact, failing students are being propped up even more now.

sundrieddate · Joined: 04 Apr 2009 Posts: 12

no one knows

D. Merit · Joined: 02 May 2008 Posts: 203

Zoot · Joined: 15 Jun 2007 Posts: 408

D. Merit does that mean the quality of students entering HCT is getting lower or are lower achieving students being allowed in now and weren't in the past? If it's the former, then that's a real problem needing to be addressed by ADEC and its providers. Which providers are in the secondary schools? The answer to that may be an indication of how well they are 'providing'!