Education
Dr Mona Al Bahar (@monaalbahar), emphasised the importance of physical education, music classes, and social and volunteer programmes in schools.
Dubai Abulhoul (@DubaiAbulhoul) said: “Educational systems need to start teaching students how to think for themselves, not force ideas on them.”
Dr Suraksha Malhotra (@dubaibestdoctor) said her children still could not understand Arabic after 10 years of study.
Mona Alhamed (@MonaAlhamed) believes “real investment is in teachers. Have higher standards for teachers and raise their salaries and their importance. Stop lowering expectations from Emirati students, demand more of them in schools and universities”.
Ahmed Amiri (@AhmedAmiri) suggested that all those who want to teach, regardless of university degree, should be given training and allowed to teach.
Health
Amna Al Hashemi (@hashemitsu) said: “Mental health, mental health, mental health. It is incredibly neglected and should be improved as an important health issue.”
Ashfak Khan (@ashfak007) requested that the UAE government make education and healthcare more affordable.
Dr Abeer Al Emaratiya (@3aboreeta) complained that doctors’ salaries in most Emirates were still a problem.
Ayesha, (@bintabdulaziz22) called for a law that would only allow doctors to prescribe medication in their field and not step on toes of other specialities, for example psychiatry. She also suggested pharmaceutical company representatives should pay fewer visits to doctors as it contributed to them prescribing more medication.
Hamda Al Marzouqi (@MsAlMarzouqi) said some hospitals need to be rebuilt and go through an organisational revamp.
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Navdeep Suri, India's Ambassador to the UAE
There has been a longstanding need from the Indian community to have a religious premises where they can practise their beliefs. Currently there is a very, very small temple in Bur Dubai and the community has outgrown this. So this will be a major temple and open to all denominations and a place should reflect India’s diversity.
It fits so well into the UAE’s own commitment to tolerance and pluralism and coming in the year of tolerance gives it that extra dimension.
What we will see on April 20 is the foundation ceremony and we expect a pretty broad cross section of the Indian community to be present, both from the UAE and abroad. The Hindu group that is building the temple will have their holiest leader attending – and we expect very senior representation from the leadership of the UAE.
When the designs were taken to the leadership, there were two clear options. There was a New Jersey model with a rectangular structure with the temple recessed inside so it was not too visible from the outside and another was the Neasden temple in London with the spires in its classical shape. And they said: look we said we wanted a temple so it should look like a temple. So this should be a classical style temple in all its glory.
It is beautifully located - 30 minutes outside of Abu Dhabi and barely 45 minutes to Dubai so it serves the needs of both communities.
This is going to be the big temple where I expect people to come from across the country at major festivals and occasions.
It is hugely important – it will take a couple of years to complete given the scale. It is going to be remarkable and will contribute something not just to the landscape in terms of visual architecture but also to the ethos. Here will be a real representation of UAE’s pluralism.
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