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Chapter Seven

                  the domain of the mulawwa', who ran a kutlab where children, boys
                  and girls, learned the Koran by rote and also learnt to read and write.
                    Modern schooling on theTrucial Coast was first provided with the
                  help of the British government in Sharjah in 1953. From 1954
                  onwards the government of Kuwait built, equipped and staffed
                  several schools in the six northern Trucial States.51 The government
                  of Dubai was not inactive, the Ruler even turned his summer palace
                  into a temporary school for the winter months in 1958. The Ruler
                  asked the education authorities in Cairo for more teachers, who came
                  under the control of a United Arab Republic’s educational mission
                  which had been established in Sharjah. Dubai’s own school-building
                  programme started during the 1960s, and by the time education was
                  handed over to the Federal Ministry of Education of the UAE in 1972,
                  16 boys’ schools and 12 girls’ schools had been built and were in use.
                    It is significant that in the development of education in Dubai
                  emphasis has been given to technical education. A trade school with
                  an initial intake of boys mostly from Sharjah and Dubai opened in
                  Sharjah in 19 5 852 and was funded by the British Government. Shaikh
                  Rashid bin SaTd, who foresaw the benefit of a technical education for
                  his young citizens and for the future development of the town, put up
                  the sum of over £30,000 to have a trade school and accommodation
                  built in Dairah under the supervision of the principal of the school in
                  Sharjah. The running costs of the school were shared equally
                  between the Ruler of Dubai and the British Government until March
                  1967, when all the expenditure became the responsibility of the
                 Trucial States Development Fund. The Dubai Trade School was
                 extended in early 1966 to allow a commercial course to be added to
                 the curriculum,53 and further additions, with pre-technical courses
                 and two extra post-technical years at secondary school level, brought
                 the entire curriculum to twelve years of education. At the end of 1968
                 there were 194 students enrolled at the Trade School in Dubai. The
                 accelerating economic development of the City State in the late 1960s
                 already gave a foretaste of the employment opportunities that lay in
                 store for young local people who had gone through a practical
                 education and were willing to apply their knowledge and skills.

                 Police force
                 The establishment in 1956 of a police force was a significant step in
                 the process of transforming Dubai into a well-organised State
                 prepared to develop an ever more diversified economy and an
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