Youths put skills ahead of money

Youths put skills ahead of money

 

 

Young people attending the Emirati Youth Forum yesterday who said the opportunity to grow was the deciding factor in accepting a job. INJAZ UAE is an organization that builds bridges between schools and colleges and the private sector. Employers say can't hire Emiratis because they can’t give them the salaries and working hours they demand. Voting results also showed that students believed working in the private sector would present more demands than working for the government. Competition for government jobs will intensify as demand outpaces supply, k,and as the government moves into supporting less traditional industries such as media and hospitality as the economy matures Job fairs, career guidance and workshops with corporate guests are ways that universities can help create new perceptions about working in the private sector. A survey of Emirati youth found that nearly 70 per cent of respondents consider factors other than salary and benefits to be the most important criteria when deciding on a job. Sulaf was speaking on the sidelines of the first youth forum that was conducted ahead of the annual Tawdheef Recruitment Show. Following the UAE government declaration of 2013 as the year of Emiratis, this edition of Tawdheef will see a renewed focus on the recruitment of Emiratis. A number of positions will also be open for expatriates. This is why the forum, which included Emirati youth from across the UAE, was conducted, and it yielded surprising information for most attendees. The private sector work environment does not always provide sufficient motivation for Emirati youth.

Release target for Asian Houbara

Release target for Asian Houbara

At the Abu Dhabi International Hunting and Equestrian Exhibition the International Fund for Houbara Conservation (IFHC) announced it has exceeded yearly expectations of Asian Houbara released into the wild. This year has been remarkable in terms of success. They have exceeded their target of releasing 10,000 birds by 3,000 bringing that number up to a total of 13,000 Asian Hubbard birds produced in the UAE. Some hunters are poaching the houbara by killing it using shotguns, giving the bird a zero survival chance in that case, as opposed to the slight chance of escape the houbara gets when being hunted by a falcon. A reason for this is the difference in mentality that modern hunters have as opposed to their forefathers who grew up in harsh conditions and were accustomed to giving back to nature as much as they took from it. Another reason the Director General revealed is that many trap these birds and take them from their habitats  in order to train their falcons how to hunt. Many falconers have drifted away from traditional methods of hunting, by over-trapping houbara birds, which are not the falcon’s natural prey in the first place. It is a big leap from the 2,726 chicks bred last year, thanks to the transfer of 5,000 houbara, including 3,000 breeding birds, from the IFHC centre in Morocco. They were asked to complete an IFHC survey that will give a realistic number of houbara needed to meet the demands of the local falconry market. A total of 5,373 chicks hatched at the new Sheikh Khalifa Houbara Breeding Centre at Saih Al Salem, and 7,732 at the National Avian Research Centre. The International Fund for Houbara Conservation (IFHC) bred more than 13,000 Asian Houbara chicks in this year’s season, it announced yesterday

 

How do Gulf corals beat the heat?

How do Gulf corals beat the heat?

 

 

In summer the temperature reaches from 35c to 40c in the waters of the gulf. In Abu Dhabi people try to do their best to help the corals and reef fish from dying. The people who have experience took samples of hump corals and sent them from Abu Dhabi and to a lab in Britain. The algae photosynthesis producing sugars that provide up to 90 per cent of the corals energy and in return the coral provides shelter and nutrients this helps explain why the corals surviving. When it is very hut the algae damage the corals which have died An extreme case of this bleaching was seen in 1998, when the El Niño weather phenomenon subjected 80 per cent of the world’s coral reefs to extreme temperatures. One coral in particular the table corals corpora have managed a particularly impressive recovery along the Abu Dhabi coast, after having been wiped out by the 1998 El Niño. Working with an oceanographer from the marine biodiversity section of the Environment Agency Abu Dhabi Prof Burt has been developing detailed maps of coastal current patterns in the southern Gulf.

 

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New Pearl Museum opens in RAK

 

The ancient myths talk about the precious pearl. Two of local legends say she has two mothers Bint Al Qamar daughter of the rain and Bint Al Matar' daughter of the rain. Both of them said there is nothing more beautiful or precious than a pearl. The trade was done by merchants and monarchs across the world. Also it had are impact on the local culture and economy.  Many tourists from all over the would come to RAK to see the pearls and take photos. The people stopped diving to find the pearls since 1930 because of the Japanese invention of cultured pearls. Also you can see a lot of women from all the world wear the pearl jewelry. Pearl divers wore special clothes such as Al Khabt or leather finger gloves; 'Al Fatam', a tortoise-shell flexible nose clip; and a thick, white cotton diver suit against jellyfish. Despite this precaution, many divers suffered from great illness later on in their life. They wore no protection for their eyes and ears, and suffered later on from blindness and deafness.