The College of Business Administration has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Microsoft Corporation to enhance and develop the skills of faculty members and build students’ digital capabilities. This comes as collaborative efforts made to improve students’ skills and increase their readiness for the labor market, throughout keeping up with the rapid developments of the digital world in the field of teaching and learning that would provide students with an advanced digital educational experience.

The Memorandum of Understanding that was signed by the COB Dean, Dr. Abdulrahman Alshimai, and Microsoft VP Corporate and SMB Segment, Eng. Musa Eid, last Thursday aims to empowering and skilling students and faculty members to comply with the digital economy.

The memorandum included the possibility of benefiting from the supportive programs to achieve this goal, which the company provides, such as the “Microsoft Future-Ready Skills Resources” program in addition to the possibility of benefiting from the digital content of applied courses, and training workshops on the company’s various digital platforms.

During the meeting, they discussed a number of issues of common interest, centering on the informational developments the world is witnessing and their impact on the education sector. Eng. Musa Eid also talked about artificial intelligence and its impact on the future skills that the labor market will require, and the need to adopt initiatives that contribute to keeping pace with technical developments and enhance the use of artificial intelligence in the field of education and learning.

The signing of this agreement comes as part of the COB’s efforts to provide contemporary academic experience and practices to students to enable them competing in the labor market.