The Board of Governors of Hamdan Bin Mohammed Smart University (HBMSU) consulted with the University Learners Council recently to discuss the integrity and top quality of the educational procedure in the university in a first-of-its-kind event in the UAE. The conference assessed likewise the relevance of engaging the young people in ongoing nationwide initiatives in the direction of developing an affordable knowledge-based economy.

Taking place on the sidelines of the 2nd regular conference for the University year 2016/ 2017, the celebration was led by H.E. Lieutenant General Dhahi Khalfan Tamim, Deputy Chairman of Police and General Protection in Dubai and Chairman of the University's Board of Governors that stressed the role of higher education including innovative and smart approaches in enabling learners to lead the nation's future comprehensive advancement. The Learners Council offered its future plans also during the meeting, providing particular focus on the importance of cultivating management skills, adopting sophisticated discovering methodologies, highlighting competitiveness, and encouraging scientific research and investment.

H.E. Lt Gen Tamim said that youth empowerment is amongst HBMSU's critical top priorities who highly sustains key initiatives to support, train and employ the UAE's young skills under the advice of the country's visionary leaders. He likewise restated the university's commitment to support the students' development in numerous areas of leadership, research and development, and financial investment, noting their vital role in the nation's innovation-driven economic prosperity inning accordance with the regulations of H.H. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, UAE's Vice President and Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, that said, 'We are happy that the UAE is a young country. And we boast of our young people. We invest in them and equip them exactly due to the fact that they are our future.'

H.E. included: "The conference in between the Board of Governors and the Learners Council marks a turning point in the history of HBMSU, which has been building a real partnership with the youth by involving them in the decision-making process and assisting them take on management duties. HBMSU has actually adopted this stance as shown by its search of top notch academic outcomes to help its learners handle the demands of the future. Taking into account this, we are working to build a knowing environment that supports innovation amongst the young for them to end up being future leaders who can driving the country's growth, development, and prosperity. This is inning accordance with HBMSU's goals of taking the lead in terms of scientific innovation and smart understanding and offering remarkable discovering chances for future innovators of the Arab World."

Waleed Abdulla AlShehhi, President of HBMSU's Learners Council, commended the extraordinary gathering, stating that it provided the council a possibility to straight meet with the Board of Governors. He additionally praised HBMSU for motivating its learners to assume influential management positions and participate in the decision-making procedure, in addition to cultivating the culture of competition and boosting the young generation's scientific study abilities. HBMSU ensures that its graduates will certainly be more than qualified to help drive national development and place the UAE on the world map.

He claimed: "The meeting is an unprecedented action in the direction of urging students to recommend their imaginative suggestions on enhancing the top quality of instructional results through smart learning and thorough clinical research methods. Through this meeting, we emphasize on the payments of the Learners Council in the facility and administration of an investment fund with learners that are business owners. The fund supports scientific research study works and human capacity building initiatives the same way the 'Country Fund' does under the chairmanship of H.E. Lieutenant General Dhahi Khalfan Tamim."

HBMSU took the opportunity to highlight its achievements for the School year 2015/ 2016 amongst which one of the most crucial was that it ended up being the Middle East's first university to obtain ISO22301:2012- Business Continuity Management System Qualification from the International Criterion Company (ISO). In 2015, the university was certified with ISO 29990: 2010 certification, following an exterior audit by Lloyd's Register Quality control Limited. Finally, the conference reviewed the tuition charges for the next academic year.