Expat package comparable to £120,000/yr
Jan 29th 2008, 4:28 pm
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Re: Expat package comparable to £120,000/yr
As of right now, I'm basing it on INSEAD, ESADE and Oxford's Sa3id (for those of you who haven't learned this yet in Dubai, '3' is the 'throaty' Arabic vowel :-) ). They are 10-14 month programs. The US programs would be slightly higher costs and last a full 2 years.
I had initially planned on starting in the coming September, but I think the Dubai offer is too good to miss - even if I waited 2 years to start, I'd still be about a year under the average student age.
I had initially planned on starting in the coming September, but I think the Dubai offer is too good to miss - even if I waited 2 years to start, I'd still be about a year under the average student age.
The US programs give the chance to earn during their summer break, but then there's the opportunity cost of the extra time studying.
Wait two years to enter and you'd be one of the older Brits at INSEAD (as indeed I was), despite still being slightly younger than the average for the population as a whole.
Jan 29th 2008, 4:32 pm
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Re: Expat package comparable to £120,000/yr
I never went back and calculated how much I spent at INSEAD. I don't think I want to.
The US programs give the chance to earn during their summer break, but then there's the opportunity cost of the extra time studying.
Wait two years to enter and you'd be one of the older Brits at INSEAD (as indeed I was), despite still being slightly younger than the average for the population as a whole.
The US programs give the chance to earn during their summer break, but then there's the opportunity cost of the extra time studying.
Wait two years to enter and you'd be one of the older Brits at INSEAD (as indeed I was), despite still being slightly younger than the average for the population as a whole.
Jan 29th 2008, 6:57 pm
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Re: Expat package comparable to £120,000/yr
INSEAD are opening a "campus" in Abu Dhabi this year, whether its the usual UAE pants uni/scam I'm not sure? might be worth checking out though
Jan 29th 2008, 7:18 pm
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Re: Expat package comparable to £120,000/yr
Jan 29th 2008, 7:28 pm
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Re: Expat package comparable to £120,000/yr
The Centre for Executive Education and Research in AD has already opened. The clue to what it does is in the name 
No MBA degree from there.
No MBA degree from there.
Jan 30th 2008, 11:01 am
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Re: Expat package comparable to £120,000/yr
ismi? mish mittel sharm bi suriyya... lol cham pronounced Kaam.
ok i hadn't heard of INSEAD, i was looking at LSB as they've just opened a join london/dubai MBA course... only about 32k as well.
lol JVR i thought you were fluent already?
Jan 30th 2008, 11:12 am
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Re: Expat package comparable to £120,000/yr
ana inglizi bas, be7ki shway arabe... fosa wa lubnaani...
ismi? mish mittel sharm bi suriyya... lol cham pronounced Kaam.
ok i hadn't heard of INSEAD, i was looking at LSB as they've just opened a join london/dubai MBA course... only about 32k as well.
lol JVR i thought you were fluent already?
ismi? mish mittel sharm bi suriyya... lol cham pronounced Kaam.
ok i hadn't heard of INSEAD, i was looking at LSB as they've just opened a join london/dubai MBA course... only about 32k as well.
lol JVR i thought you were fluent already?
so my knowledge is restricted to things like, American Idol, at-talatah aal hadiyat-ashra' amasaa'n wa al-ashra' KSA, aala Dubai One, and suchlike
Jan 30th 2008, 11:25 am
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Re: Expat package comparable to £120,000/yr
not at all - i was hoping before i got here that i'd pick it up, and i'm sure that if i had spent the last year in an actual Arabic speaking country, Jordan, Egypt etc, then I would be reasonably good by now... but I don't deal with any Arabs at work or in the evenings, so the only input i have is the voice-over woman on MBC/Dubai one
so my knowledge is restricted to things like, American Idol, at-talatah aal hadiyat-ashra' amasaa'n wa al-ashra' KSA, aala Dubai One, and suchlike
so my knowledge is restricted to things like, American Idol, at-talatah aal hadiyat-ashra' amasaa'n wa al-ashra' KSA, aala Dubai One, and suchlike
Jan 30th 2008, 3:59 pm
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Re: Expat package comparable to £120,000/yr
Jumeriah Beach Hotel's club costs 55k (maybe a bit more now) for a family, so for a single person would be a bit less, but I know the waiting list is long. Le Meridien Mina Seyahi's list is closed...Ritz Carlton Beach club is around 70k I think, it may be more, someone did tell me it was 90k but i'm not sure if this is correct...
MM, xx
MM, xx
what a rip off.
