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AUS Media Clippings Newspaper Clippings of American University of Sharjah 18 September, 2014

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AUS top-notch holistic approach draws interest of Saudi students With some 90, 000 Saudi students studying in the US, regional schools implementing the American educational system are trying to attract more enrollees from the Kingdom. One of them is the American University of Sharjah (AUS).

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The Saudi Gazette (Jeddah Edition)

6 UAE varsities among top 400 Six universities in the UAE have been ranked among the best 400 universities, according to the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings.They are UAE University, Al Ain; American University of Sharjah (AUS); Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi; University of Sharjah; American University in Dubai; and Abu Dhabi University. The QS. based its classification on a number of strict requirements, among others, the academic reputation, recruitment and productivity indicators, research, proportion of teaching staff to students, attractiveness of university to professors and foreign students.

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Khaleej Times

Lasers' cutting-edge applications Lasers are all around us. In particular, an associate professor at the American University of Sharjah, Dr Ali Al Naser, is researching ways of using lasers that could have application in everything from cancer diagnosis and treatment to the generation of oil industry products.

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The National

Evolution of the teaching in fast-changing world Most people have a very traditional conception of teaching. Ask a parent how she imagines her child in school, and she will describe a classroom with a teacher standing at the front, near a board (white, black, or green), and pupils (hopefully a small number) sitting at tables, one by one or two by two, row behind row, listening and writing. Ask a (typical) educator how teaching is best performed, and he may murmur something about “active” or “collaborative” learning, “technology and web tools”, and other such “innovative” approaches, but in reality, he will most likely be just lecturing to his students, trying to impart as much “knowledge” as possible. This is what a recent study on creativity and innovation in education in the European Union reported: “Conventional ways of teaching, [i.e.] teacher-centred methods, frontal teaching and chalk-and-talk, prevail in a good majority of schools in the EU27.” Nidhal Guessoum is a professor of physics and astronomy at the American University of Sharjah.

You can follow him on Twitter at: www.twitter.com/@NidhalGuessoum.

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Gulf News

Ethics in focus after Padukone's outburst Top Bollywood actress Deepika Padukone's outrage at a leading Indian daily for publishing a tawdry web gallery of pictures of her sparked an India-wide show of support on social media yesterday, with her film industry peers leading the campaign. Dr Mohammad Ayish, head of mass communications department at the American University of Sharjah, told Gulf News yesterday.

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