[Discussion] New University for Women to be Launched in Bahrain

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New University for Women to be Launched in Bahrain*


New Women's University to Open in the Arabian Gulf

Call for Information

A new private university for women committed to providing world-class 
education is being established in Bahrain. The mobilization management 
team of the Royal University for Women is currently preparing for the 
official opening of our purpose-built campus in 2005. We will be 
affiliated with McGill University in Canada for our Colleges of Business 
Management and Education, and with Middlesex University in the UK for 
our College of Design & Informatics.

Our mission is to empower women and to draw on the best traditions of 
women's colleges in both East and West in order to build confidence, 
encourage initiative and develop leadership potential. We will encourage 
participation in a full range of student activities and give high 
priority to student support & guidance services so that our graduates 
are well-prepared for their personal and professional roles.

All our full-time students will be taking core programmes in Women's 
Skills & Development and we are keen to promote positive images of women 
as role models, particularly women achievers from Arabic-speaking and 
Islamic backgrounds. We are also eager to compile data on 'women 
achievers' from these categories who graduated from women-only 
colleges/universities. If you have any suggestions on individual women 
from these categories that we could include in our courses and 
promotional materials, please contact me as soon as possible.

For those who are interested in joining us in this exciting new venture, 
we will be recruiting high-calibre academic and support staff 
internationally over the next year. All vacancies will be posted on our 
website which will be launched soon - I'll post details as soon as it's 
live.

If you have any relevant experience, or ideas that you would like to 
share with us or support to offer, we would love to hear from you.

Looking forward to lots of good networking!

Many thanks,

Leila Le Blond
Director of Student Affairs
Royal University for Women

    Leila Le Blond
Director of Student Affairs
Royal University for Women
PO Box 37400
Riffa
Bahrain

tel: (00 973) 17540005 x. 223
mob: (00 973) 39667623

fax: (00 973) 17540405

Email: llbsa@ruw.edu.bh <mailto:llbsa@ruw.edu.bh>
Visit the website at http://website to be launched shortly 
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