While education is necessary to kick start your career, your soft skills will take you to the next level! Students at Skyline University College have a unique advantage of Professional Skills Development Program (PSDP) - a methodical way of developing soft skills amongst these budding business professionals. Under PSDP, a series of workshops are organized by our dedicated faculty members on pertinent issues, while assessing individual performance for further action. Recently, Dr. Victoria Verna, Head of English Language Center (ELC) organized one such workshop on “Team Working Skills” at the university premises. “It’s learning with fun while attending such workshops. I always eagerly look forward to attending PSDP workshops,” said Heba, a freshman student.
Stay tuned for the next PSDP workshop!
And that's a wrap for GETEX 2017! Our SUC team of staffs, faculty members, and students are so glad to have met all of you at the exhibition. We hope we have given comprehensive information on your enquiries. Don't forget to get in touch with us through emails and calls and we'll be happy to see you again soon.
Shoutout to our exhibition team for their hard work and effort to make this event a success to everyone of us at Skyline! Until the next GETEX 2018!
Skyline University College Nigeria Office Country Head Ms. Bolade Blessing Olasolomon and Marketing Staff Ms. Ruth Owoade visited Freedom Radio station for a 1-hour on-air discussion about education and living in UAE today, April 12, 2017. They talked about the education culture in UAE and the efforts of the government and private sectors like SUC as an institution that provides quality education throughout the region.
Skyline University College Meet our Morocco international team at the Beni Mellal Education Exhibition in Morocco and learn all the things you need to know about studying abroad and admission details at SUC. Contact our SUC Morocco Office Marketing Executive, Ms. Lamia El Mouhib at admissions.morocco@skylineuniversity.ac.ae today!
CALLING ALL BOOK LOVERS!
Skyline University College is organizing Skyline Book Fair 2017 on April 18-19, 2017 at SUC Multi-Purpose Hall. SUC Library Department has invited various vendors and publishers from UAE to take part in the Book Fair. This is your chance to get exclusive discounts on your favorites books plus receive surprise gifts from us!
Join SUC as we continue the UAE’s advocacy of creating a generation of book lovers and a culture that promotes reading in the country.
See you at the Book Fair, fellow book lovers!
Skyline University College international team is working in full force as they organized a Career Day in Kano and Abuja, Nigeria on March 23, 2017. Marketing and Creative Communications Head and Deputy Director, Mr. Rakesh Gaur personally conducted the workshops along with SUC Assistant Manager for Business Development, Mr. Abubakar Sadeeq Ismail and SUC former student and alumni, Mr. Aliyu.
The SUC Career Day served as a platform and an opportunity to provide budding students and their parents specialized counselling, thorough guide, and professional advice on international higher education.
Skyline University College has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with University of Mindanao, Philippines today, March 28, 2017. SUC Head of Quality Assurance and Professor, Dr. Sudhakar Kota and UM SVP for Academic Planning and Services and Graduate School Dean, Dr. Eugenio Guhao signed the MOU on behalf of their respective organizations. The two parties have agreed on several areas of cooperation such as Faculty and Student Exchanges, Collaborative Projects, Scholarships, Information Exchanges, Conferences and Program Review among others.
SUC Assistant Professor, Dr. Sharon Mendoza Dreisbach successfully coordinated the MOU between the two parties.
Researchers from around the globe will be deliberating on the fast growing technology and the impact of these technologies on businesses at the 4th International Conference on Business and Management on March 26-27, 2017, at Skyline University College, Sharjah.
The participants will discuss whether these technologies are helping to improve productivity or causing technological blackout and disruption to the smooth operations of the business. Whether these rapidly changing technologies are becoming a cost burden on the businesses or becoming obsolete before it is fully written off in the accounting terms or cost benefit comparison of adopting the new technologies.
The conference will also have discussions on the harm done by presence of fly-by-night technology firms and practitioners, security threat to data and cost burden of preventing data theft, and the growth of professional crime rackets capable of stealing even highly secured data from any part of the world.
SUC is looking forward to seeing all the delegates from 16 countries from around the world. See you all at the 4th International Conference on Business and Management: Fin-Tech Driven-Age.
The 4th Skyline Inter-University Sports Festival 2017 concluded with good cheers and new sets of champions from the four sports categories: Football, Basketball, Table Tennis, and Throw Ball! We thank all the players, coaches, and mentors from different universities across UAE for taking part in the sports festival! Congratulations to all the winners and see you again next year at the 5th Skyline Inter-University Sports Festival 2018!
Skyline University College organizes World Water Day in the month of March annually for creating awareness on the importance of freshwater and sustainable management of freshwater resources in UAE. Like every year this event is celebrated by the faculty, staff and students at Al Qasba, on 22nd of March, 2016 with great enthusiasm and fervor.
"Better Water Better Jobs" is the theme for the UN World water Day for 2016, Skyline University in collaboration with SHUROOQ. (Sharjah Investment & Development Authority) has organized this event and has gained considerable attention among the community.
This event has generated awareness among the youth of today in conserving water resources and using the water resources judiciously. The event witnessed a number of activities, which include:
- A pledge for the conservation of water by the student Representative Neha Swaminathan UN nominee representing Youth Strategy of UNEP Tunza network
- Painting competition by a large number of school students, with ages ranging from 4-13
- Awareness walk by students of Skyline University demonstrating the importance of water and its impact all the sections of the society.
- Conducted a spot quiz on water conservation, sustainability, water and jobs.
Mr. Sultan Shattaf – Al Qasba Manager SHUROOQ graced the occasion as Chief Guest for this prestigious event.
Speaking on the importance of World Water Day Celebrations Mr. Nitin Anand, Director and Chair of the Executive Council and the dean professor Dr Amitabh Upadhya, Skyline University College, Sharjah said, "We at Skyline University College understand the importance of fresh water and observe this day with all the zeal every year. This year too we celebrated the day and we have undertaken many efforts to save and conserve water in Skyline like water harvesting, installing smart toilets and educating the faculty, staff and students about importance of water conservation."
Dr. Mohammad Abdul Salam, Faculty and Chair-Services Committee Skyline University College along with his team has meticulously planned the event which was carried out by Students Services Committee in a responsible and successful manner.
The 7th CEO Lecture Series was conducted on Monday, 21st of March 2016 with Mr. Firoz Merchant, the Chairman and Founder of Pure Gold Group as the key note speaker and chief guest for the lecture. The theme of the said event was "Inspiration vs. Motivation – A Pathway to SUCCESS: "How to build an Inspiring and Meaningful Career." It is one of those rare occasions and moments of pride when a global business leader like Mr. Firoz Merchant comes down to Skyline University College to share his success stories. Members of Mr. Firoz Merchant's family and SUC Faculty Members led by Dr. Amitabh Upadhya, Professor and Dean of SUC were present during the event.
Expressing his delight at being present to address the SUC community, Firoz spoke about his personal and corporate journeys which taught him different lessons in life. He shared his final message by sharing his motto in life, "You can lose money and get it all back, but once you lose your health it is extremely difficult to reclaim."
The Management of Human Resources class of Dr. Sharon M. Dreisbach and Dr. Hassan Al – Dhaafri conducted a seminar on Recruitment and Selection yesterday, March 19, 2017. The resource speakers of the Guest Lecture were Mr. Ammar Bin Tamim. Mr. Ammar, Director of Driver Recruitment of Road Transportation Authority Dubai and Ms. Afnan Mohamed Abdulrahman Al Ali, Assistant Manager of Inspection Department and Complaint Department of the Ministry of Human Resource and Emiratization. Mr. Ammar shared his 20 years of experience in the field of Human Resources, specializing in Driver Recruitment and over the years, he recruited more than 30,000 drivers in the UAE. Meanwhile, Ms. Afnan discussed the Labor Law: Compensation and Employees Benefits where students learned a lot about the policies of the government.