Sunday, November 16, 2008
Oh no way, how did I miss this? In October the Boston University Institute for Dental Research and Education Dubai (BUIDRE) announced that the UAE Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research awarded initial accreditation to all five of its postgraduate programs.

Press Release here.

You'll remember that the BUIDRE (which is the best acronym ever) wasn't certified last November, when I was jumping through an asinine number of hoops to get all of my paperwork settled for my MBA.

That was the day when the fat Emirati bossman at the friggin' Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research told me in the most cliched lackadaisical, arrogant way, "Boston University is not on our list".

At the time I wrote a long but restrained posting about it (see The UAE Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research).

What I really wanted to do was something more along the line of Anthony Anderson in Harold and Kumar (parental advisory - he swears. A lot.):



Anyway, I still kind of feel that way about the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research now - even one year and four days later.

Perhaps one of these days I should write down how I really felt about my time in Dubai. That, or spend years in therapy.

So anyway, congrats to BUIDRE. And best of luck to its students. Especially ones who are going to have to get paperwork approved by the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research. The bastards.
 
posted by Josh at 7:24 AM |


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