"We design the future." A new strategy for the Higher Colleges of Technology

Abdullah bin Zayed during the launch of the new strategy for the Higher Colleges of Technology 2023-2028. WAM

H.H. Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and Chairman of the Education and Human Resources Council, has launched the new Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT) Strategy 2023-2028 under the theme "Designing the Future".

This came during a visit to the Higher Colleges of Technology for Students in Dubai, where His Highness inaugurated the new strategy.

The new strategy aims to draw a new work map for the applied education model for colleges in accordance with the leadership's directions and vision in building and preparing the future human being, with the highest level of skill, efficiency and readiness, to ensure successful dealing with challenges and variables, and to enhance competitiveness to build a sustainable economy.

Sheikh Abdullah stressed that investing in building people has been one of the main constants in the UAE's march since the establishment of the Union, as well as in its forward-looking vision for the future.

His Highness pointed to the keenness to support all development plans and initiatives for higher education institutions, which aim to improve the quality of educational services in accordance with international performance and evaluation standards, in order to reach distinguished national outputs with qualitative skills and capabilities that meet the needs of future jobs and the requirements of the priority industrial and vital sectors in the country.

His Highness stressed the importance of the new strategic transformations implemented by the Higher Colleges of Technology, through which it is keen to balance academic capabilities with the professional and practical skills required by the labor market, and to seek to provide various educational opportunities that take into account the skills and individual differences among students, and give them the opportunity to continue their studies at the level of higher education within paths that ensure that they obtain jobs in the labor market commensurate with their abilities and tendencies, enabling them to be productive and creative. and public and private sector labour institutions.

H.H. Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan was briefed on the new strategic transformations of the Higher Colleges of Technology, and listened to a detailed explanation of the purpose of these transformations, as the new strategy aims to make a qualitative leap in the concept of applied education, and is based on three main pillars: "inclusiveness", "sustainability" and "integration".