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Abdul Rahman Ali Al Attas is one of only six male students at his college pursuing a Bachelor of Education (BEd). The Emirates College for Advanced Education (ECAE) in Abu Dhabi has a student population of 220. Of this number 95 per cent is female. In some ways this makes Al Attas and his peers pioneers in their own right.
According to Al Attas, teachers are the first block of development. He said: "It is a teacher who creates doctors and engineers because they stem from branches of teaching."
However, colleges nationwide are struggling to fill teaching programmes as a majority of Emirati students opt out of, rather than into, the teaching professional
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