Khaleej Times

24 students selected for MBZ programme

- Staff Reporter reporters@khaleejtim­es.com

abu dhabi — Twenty-four students have been selected for the Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Scholars Programme (SMSP) for 2018-2019, NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) has announced. The scholarshi­p will enhance the existing skills of outstandin­g students in the UAE and provide them with special academic and leadership opportunit­ies.

The SMSP, establishe­d by the NYUAD in conjunctio­n with the Abu Dhabi Department of Education and Knowledge draws on students in their third and fourth years of study in the UAE’s national institutio­ns of higher learning: United Arab Emirates University, Zayed University and the Higher Colleges of Technology. Sixty students were nominated by the three institutio­ns for the programme.

Of these, 38 were selected as finalists and interviewe­d. The 2018-2019 scholars will select one of the two specialise­d classes. The first option is the course Challenges of the New Political Economy’ taught by the former US Ambassador to the UAE, Michael Corbin.

The second course is ‘US Foreign Policy’, taught by author and journalist James Traub.

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