Mini Report

Youths puts skills ahead of money

Young Emirati graduates prefer skills over salaries when looking for a job. That was what was proved in a forum held yesterday to discuss the issue of young Emiratis joining the work market.

A study among Emirati students proved that when they look for jobs, salary is not the only factor they consider. Growth and promotion chances matter so much to them.  Unluckily Emirati youths do not realize the chances they have in the private sector and on the other hand the employers believe that Emirati youth just care for high salaries.

In the Tawdheef Recruitment Show more than 2,500 jobs were seized. This followed the UAE government declaration of 2013 as the year of Emiratisation. Sulaf, the executive officer of the training said that this plan will not work if the youth are not to be the centre of it.

70 percent of the graduates in a forum discussing this issue of jobs said that getting a job is their first priority. However when choosing between the private sector and government , the main factors that Emirati youth considered were promotion and growth chances.

From the above writing we can see that young men of the UAE are mature enough when it comes to their future. Attractive salaries are not enough to grasp their attention. What they look for are the possibilities of moving forward in the job and the opportunities of developing one’s career and knowledge. Job fairs and career guidance besides the workshops with guests from all over the world can help create new perceptions and enlighten young men is mentalities.

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Houbara

The International Fund for Houbara Conversation stand this year features live houbara, and a play performed by primary and middle school students at the Al Yaher Public School. “Educating future hunters and falconers is our main attention this year which is why we are working closely with the Abu Dhabi Education Council and would like to see more schools taking interest in the Houbara,” said Delphine Delire, head of the IFHC\'S communications and public relations department.

One more reason, is that many trap these birds and take them from their habitats in order to train their falcons how to hunt. “Many falconers have drifted away from traditional methods of hunting, by over-trapping houbara birds, which are not the falcon’s natural prey in the first place.

Some killers are poaching the houbara by killing it using shotguns, giving the bird a zero survival chance in that case, as different to the slight chance of escape the houbara gets when being hunted by a falcon. A reason for this is the difference in attitude that modern hunters have as opposed to their forefathers who grew up in harsh conditions and were accustomed to giving back to nature as much as they took from it. By way of its own independent stand for the first time this year at the Abu Dhabi International Hunting and Equestrian Exhibition (ADIHEX), the International Fund for Houbara Conservation (IFHC) announced it has exceeded yearly expectations of Asian Houbara release into the wild. This year has been remarkable in terms of success.

Throughout the Exhibition’s four days, the IFHC will be distributing surveys aimed at falconers to determine how many Houbara birds will be needed to be bred, and how severe over-trapping is. Another issue we face is that we cannot determine the size of the black market, which is why these surveys are important.

This means houbara will not be taken from the wild to train falcons. Actually, the hunting exhibition is the best place be in contact as much as we can with falconers, and this gives us a very good indication of the hunting pressure and the problems these birds are facing," said Mr Al Baidani.

Analysis will indicate how many wild birds are trapped and which areas require the reintroduction programme. This will give evidence of past houbara behavior.

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Gulf corals beat the heat

Geologists have been asking themselves how the corals in the Gulf managed to stay alive and live in the extremely high temperature of the Gulf waters. Speculations and assumptions were introduced by some scientists but they were not acceptable. To find the key truth, Prof Burt, a researcher took some corals from Abu Dhabi Reef and examined them in the lab and there he was able to solve the riddle. He found the corals live in harmony and symbiosis with a kind of algae, or you could call it mutual benefit. The algae produce sugar which gives the coral energy and in return the coral gives shelter and nutrition to the algae. They depend on each other to continue to exist. But despite this the algae threaten the corals life. At high temperatures algae generate some chemicals that harm the corals and this has resulted in the loss of many corals.

On the other hand, corals have managed to endure and stay alive: how? Corals reproduce by fragmentation or by larval production. Larval keep floating for about a week and this period is called the pelagic larval duration. At the end of this period they attach themselves to rocks and form their own colony. Prof Burt suspected there are seeding reefs upstream in the Gulf and as a result of that calls for cross-boundary environmental protection agreements increased.

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The Ras-al-Khaimah Pearls Museum

There are many ancient myths about precious pearl. Everything from the legends surrounding the pearl to its impact on the country’s traditional culture and economy can be found in the new pearls Museum in RAK. RAK was called before Julfar and was the most important city of pearl trading. The centuries old pearling industry in the Gulf used natural pearls which occur in oysters without human use. Cultured pearls are artificially manufactured.

The pearling industry collapsed in the 1930s due to the Japanese invitation of cultured pearls but Emirati females still use the different types of pearls for names.

Thousands of local pearls, which come in different shapes which are on display, were all born in RAK’s waters. The divers rubbed oil known as ALGreat. Visitors to the museums can take a dhow trip to gain a pearling experience. Buddha oyster shells are also on display. They come from the Chinese techniques in which status of the Buddha were placed inside oysters in hopes that each shell would be blessed with a pearl.   

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