00:00I think the sunshine is there. I mean, if you look at the money we make, the profit
00:12the organization making, it's a very decent money compared to what is happening in the
00:19rest of the world. So people have to be content also. Qana'a, you know. Qana'a is being a
00:28content individual, not greedy to the degree that you, you know, dissatisfy what you have.
00:36I think what we have is very good. Yes, we got used, we were spoiled by double-digit
00:43growth. So what is wrong with a single-digit growth? It's great.
00:53We applied the same kind of discipline as if it was a privately held company. And of
00:59course, Mashaq was a publicly held company and we have imposed that kind of discipline.
01:03I think that have helped us to, you know, pass through all the ups and downs in the
01:11economy for the last 50 years.
01:19We have raised awareness and we have reached a great relationship with the cabinet, with
01:27the executive arm of the government. And there have been some challenging times in the interest
01:35of the country. And the government took us as a serious partner. When you put something
01:43on the table, which has number one interest is the country. Everybody listen.
01:52Yes, I am concerned for UAE size and economy size, political role to place. Our education
02:07could be much better. And the government have realized and they are started and they
02:17have realized this is a way and they have kept it as a priority. And we have no choice
02:26but to fix the education system from kindergarten to university.
02:35Why do we have a dropout from schools? We should first stop that, then increase the
02:40quality of teaching and quality of learning at school and experience, and then go on and
02:49look at the university. Why don't we have the top five universities in the Arab world
02:55comes from UAE? Okay, forget the world. I want to be the top university in the Arab
03:00world comes from UAE. I have the top five universities come from UAE. And then I say,
03:06okay, Asia, then Europe, then the world. We need those universities to be ranked at that
03:13level. We need to have the master degrees and the PhD degrees university as well here.
03:21We're not going to survive on just undergraduate. We need to have a research based university
03:27who really produces quality thinker. So these are the challenges and we need to have our
03:38students graduating from high school. Every single university will fight to admit them.
03:44Today, bulk majority of high school graduate go through foundation. This is not acceptable.
03:54That means our education system has failed.
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