CV Clinic

May 9, 2011, Dubai, UAE — Dubai Women's College arranged a workshop to prepare DWC students towards successful employability, was an opportunity for unemployed students, graduating students and other students seeking part time and summer employment to revise their CVs and be prepared for the job market. 65 CVs from all Dubai Women’s College programs were screened and 135 students attended career.  

‘TechnoGirls’

May 4, 2011, Dubai, UAE - Dubai Women’s College conducted recently “TechnoGirls 2011”. ‘TechnoGirls’ event allows 450 school-students explore new areas in IT.

Sheikh Sultan Saoud Al-Qassemi, founder of Barjeel Art Foundation who educated the students about how social media can drive social responsibility and engaged them with various issues of social media and its impact on the UAE society.

Dr. Behjat Al Yousef, Associate Director of Dubai Women’s College mentioned that the aim of the event is to reach out to high school girls who are one of our target populations in our efforts to increase female participation in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) programs. “By hosting an event such as Technogirls.

Arabic Book Fair

Sun 10 Apr 2011, The Arabic Book Fair is held upon an initiative from Siraaj Al Marifa Club which was recently created at Dubai Women's College with the aim of developing and enhancing skills of students in the Arabic language and culture as part of its activities for students and teaching staff.

Social Media Workshop

On the 3^rd of April 2011, DWC arranged a workshop for us as a corporate communication students, it was held in the library 3^rd floor. The workshop was about social media and how important is it nowadays, I benefit a lot from this workshop I realized how social network develops year by year, as well as the new technology that the websites owners uses to know the number of visitors and which country are they from.

Human Trafficking

March 31, 2011, Dubai, UAE – On the 4^th day of Insight Dubai 60 students from other universities around the world almost represents 30 different countries along with 60 Emirati students from Dubai Women’s College discussed different topics on Human Trafficking.

Students were divided into eight different groups in order to discuss the concerns and causes of human trafficking. Besides, groups were asked to produce posters using their own creativity in purpose of raising awareness and finding solutions for this issue.

Dr. Azhar from Dubai Foundation for Women and Children joined the conference and discussed the different types human trafficking in UAE and how they occur, as she also shared her personal experiences working with victims of human trafficking. Amanda Oakes from the United States said,” Dr. Azhar’s presentation was very interactive, and many conference participants were able to contribute to a discussion about ways to decrease victims of trafficking”.

At the end of the session a staff member at Dubai Women’s College mentioned that the students made a wonderful job in presenting valuable information and giving good solutions, based on the excellent job that the students ended up with; Dr. Azhar asked if she could use the posters in the coming conference on human trafficking. Some students also mentioned that they benefit a lot from this session and learned more about human trafficking and the reason behind it.

International Women's Day

On the 24th March 2011, Dubai Women's College celebrates the 100th anniversary of the International Women's Day on DWC's campus. The event was under the title of 'Inspiring and celebrating Women: Past, Present and Future successes’. Najla Al Awadhi, former Member of the UAE Federal National Council, Deputy CEO of Dubai Media Incorporated, General Manager of Dubai One TV and member of the Regional Board of Directors of the Young Arab Leaders gave a speech, as each of  Nima Abu-Wardeh of the BBC and founder and CEO of Cashy.me, Ginnie Carlier, Partner and MENA Diversity & Inclusiveness Leader at Ernst & Young, Latifa Fikri, President of DWC Alumnae Association and currently holds the position of Vice President at e-vision Etisalat, Nicholle Kingsley, Senior Associate at Herbert Smith and Manal Omar, Regional Program Manager for the Middle East for Oxfam participated in the discussion. As there were also different breakout sessions, and as a corporate communication student i attended the social media session the presenters were talking about how important is social media and how did media network helped them.

Art Dubai

17th March 2011, Dubai women's College arraged a field trip to DIF "Art Dubai Gallery", Art Dubai has become the essential gathering place for collectors, artists and art professionals from across the Middle East, North Africa, South Asia and beyond. The fair's fifth edition brought together more than 82 galleries from 34 countries across the world and hosted a collateral programme of events including Global Art Forum_5, Art Park, the Abraaj Capital Art Prize, exhibitions, film screenings, talks, installations and performative tours.