Speaker's Corner: January 27, 2008

From us to you: Notes — all about you
In this edit I want to address Notes readers and invite them to write for our publication. Notes is committed to writing about what concerns you and to highlight your events and voice your thoughts and points of view.

Notes consists of a small but active team. You have probably met one of the team members somewhere in your college trying to get your opinion on issues that concern the youth.

There are those who instantly volunteer to answer and there are those who have reservations. Both ways I would like to thank all those students who appear in Notes every now and then and who have become members of our readers' club — to whom we refer to get information.

So I would like to seize this opportunity and invite you to contribute to Notes in one way or another by proposing story ideas and highlighting your concerns. So tell us what you would like to see published in Notes and how you think we can improve Notes to better suit you — our audience.

To appeal to as many interests and tastes as we can, we have added a story writing section where you can contribute and show your creativity. Moreover, there is a whole section dedicated to you, so you can send in your comments, opinions, write about issues and the incidents that happened to you. If you need advice from professionals you can always ask and we will try to help you as much as possible.

It is actually very rewarding to read your by-line and to see your stories published. Not only that, it is more rewarding to request something and get it.

So go ahead, voice your thoughts, points of view, concerns and highlight the events taking place at your university/school and the Notes team will try its best to help you out.
Talk to us, we're listening.
Rania Al Hussaini
Notes Deputy Editor
education@gulfnews.com

Making the right educational choice
The Sharjah American International School (SAIS) recently held its sixth annual Career Day at the school gym. The event was organised by the SAIS career guidance centre, which has been ranked by the Ministry of Education as the second best guidance centre in the UAE.
The visiting universities and educational institutions included:

Study in Australia — IDP
University of Wollongong — Australia
Study in New Zealand — Knowledge
Village Dubai
Study in UK — Next Step Ahead
Middlesex University — UK
George Mason in RAK — USA
Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar- USA
A & M Texas University in Qatar— USA
George Town University in Qatar — USA
Sorbonne University — France
American University of Sharjah
American University of Dubai
Dubai University
Sharjah University
Gulf Medical College
Etisalat Academy
Aviation College
Dubai Aviation Enterprise University
Princeton Review
Canadian University of Dubai
University of New Brunswick — Canada
Windsor University — Canada
Qadri International
Skyline College

Grade 11 and 12 students of SAIS from both the Sharjah and the Dubai campuses got the opportunity to get information and guidance from representatives of different universities.
The SAIS Career Day clarified student doubts and assisted them in making intelligent educational choices.

Happy or sad?
Tell us your thoughts, your opinions and about you. Talk to us. Send us your pictures. education@gulfnews.com