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DUBAI — The Dubai Real Estate Institute
(DREI) yesterday launched a scientific and research hub equipped to
provide information for the advancement of the real estate industry,
the academic institution yesterday said in a statement.
It
added that the DREI Resource Centre would acquire, facilitate, deliver
and disseminate industry information to serve the teaching and research
needs of the institute, the Middle East's first specialised real estate
school.
The
centre has a comprehensive database of print and online resources
including Emerald Insight, which has a wide collection of property
periodicals, the global provider of industry and management analysis,
Economist Intelligence Unit, business solutions producer LexisNexis and
the American Real Estate Society (ARES).
ARES
is an important part of the research database because it promotes
research and education in real estate the exchange of information
between and among universities, faculty and practising professionals. Dr
Mohamed Al Shehi, managing director of DREI, said the centre is part of
the institute's commitment to provide high quality education, research
and professional development solutions. "It will serve as a vast
storehouse of information as well as a vehicle to enable academics and
practitioners to conduct relevant and timely research," he added.
The
statement said membership to the resource centre is open to individual
researchers, corporations, students, universities, governments,
research institutions and consultants. Members may also avail of free
wireless internet, book briefing seminars as well as printing and
photocopying facilities. "The online databases
will act as a tool, segmenting journal articles, reports and
statistics, in addition to helping researchers locate and retrieve
articles from magazines and journals through the internet by author,
keyword or title," the statement said. The
newly opened DREI has partnered with several international real estate
universities in offering graduate programmes and industry specific open
enrolment courses
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