University welcomes Bahrain’s Minister of Education
The Minister, His Excellency Dr Majed Bin Ali-Al Noaimi (left), is pictured giving the gift of Dilmun Seals to the University's Vice-Chancellor, Professor Bob Cryan. The Seals are a complete Encyclopedia about the Dilmun civilisation, with each stamp telling a unique story about the culture of Bahrain and its people.
Mon, 14 Sep 2015 12:38:00 BST
The University of Huddersfield welcomed His Excellency Dr Majed Bin Ali-Al Noaimi on a fact-finding visit to explore opportunities to further develop Bahrain’s higher education and research
Pictured with a number of current Bahraini students studying at Huddersfield are (front row left to right) Bahrain’s General Secretary of Higher Education, Professor Riyad Hamzah, University Vice-Chancellor Professor Bob Cryan, His Excellency Dr Majed Bin Ali-Al Noaimi and Pro Vice-Chancellor (International) Professor Dave Taylor.
THE University of Huddersfield was honoured to welcome Bahrain’s Minister of Education on a major fact-finding visit to explore opportunities to further develop the Persian Gulf state’s higher education and research.
The Minister, His Excellency Dr Majed Bin Ali-Al Noaimi, was accompanied by Bahrain’s General Secretary of Higher Education, Professor Riyad Hamzah, and the delegation was welcomed to Huddersfield by the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Bob Cryan, and the Pro Vice-Chancellor (International), Professor Dave Taylor.
The visit is part of a 10-year strategy by the Kingdom of Bahrain to create a higher education institute that will run alongside the University of Bahrain. The new institute will accelerate the country’s economic growth through new programmes that are currently unavailable.
The purpose of the visit was to establish or build on existing links that could be delivered in Bahrain, whilst exploring new collaboration opportunities. The University of Huddersfield was one of just six UK universities to be included in the week-long visit.
His Excellency Dr Majed Bin Ali-Al Noaimi gave the University a gift of Dilmun Seals which are pictured.
During his visit, Dr Ali-Al Noaimi toured the University’s celebrated 3M Buckley Innovation Centre, which has an international reputation for its work in the disciplines of advanced manufacturing, surface metrology and precision measurement, formulation chemistry and high-performance computers.
The Innovation Centre is also home to a number of major companies that have existing partnerships with the University, including Arms Reliability, BorgWarner, Severn Unival, Surfachem and NPL, the National Physical Laboratory.
His Excellency was also shown the work of the University’s leading commercial research facility IPOS, which stands for Innovative Physical Organic Chemistry.
IPOS provides contract analytical and process development services to the chemical industry and operates from purpose-built laboratories equipped with state-of-the-art instrumentation.
Dr Ali-Al Noaimi finished his visit by meeting a number of current Bahraini students who are currently studying at Huddersfield, which included both undergraduate and postgraduates.
The University’s Professor Dave Taylor, who arranged the visit, was delighted that Huddersfield was chosen to receive the Minister. “Dr Ali-Al Noaimi was particularly keen to meet our current Bahraini students and spoke highly of what he had seen at Huddersfield,” said Professor Taylor. “The University is perfectly aligned to the goals of Bahrain’s new institute, which seeks to embed employability, technology and entrepreneurship across all disciplines.”
