H.H. Sheikh Dr Sultan bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah, underlined the pivotal function of educational analysis on the postgraduate stage in uncovering truths and increasing data. He careworn that researchers should embody elementary qualities – a love of studying, a spirit of inquiry, and a continuing starvation for the undiscovered – to make sure that their research contribute significant insights, open new mental horizons, and profit students worldwide.
This assertion got here throughout H.H. the Ruler’s assembly on Wednesday with the primary cohort of doctoral college students at International Research College (GSU), held within the presence of Sheikha Hoor bint Sultan bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, President of GSU, on the Dr Sultan Al Qasimi Centre in College Metropolis. The Ruler of Sharjah congratulated the scholars on becoming a member of GSU, recalling the way it started as a challenge devoted to African research earlier than increasing into a world establishment housing quite a few analysis institutes targeted on areas and continents the world over.
H.H. Sheikh Sultan bin Mohammed famous that Sharjah has lengthy labored to create an atmosphere conducive to training by internet hosting universities, larger institutes, and specialised academies throughout numerous fields. He urged the scholars to make full use of those sources to advance the founding imaginative and prescient of the college.
Throughout the gathering, H.H. Sheikh Sultan bin Mohammed emphasised that critical tutorial analysis have to be rooted in rigour, depth, and considerate debate, with concepts being fastidiously examined and studied earlier than being dedicated to writing. Solely then, he mentioned, can analysis be genuinely authentic, modern, and of service to society— correcting historic and geographical misconceptions and providing new views.
The Ruler of Sharjah additionally shared his private expertise of analysis, recounting the years he spent in libraries, analysis centres, and universities the world over. He cited specifically his unprecedented research of the Portuguese function in navigation and the Gulf area, which took him a few years of affected person investigation. By way of perseverance and willpower, he succeeded in deciphering a wealth of outdated paperwork, later publishing them for the primary time in a 21-volume encyclopaedia entitled The Portuguese within the Sea of Oman: Occasions within the Annals from 1497 to 1757.
Dr Salah Hassan, Chancellor of GSU, delivered a speech through which he expressed gratitude to the Ruler of Sharjah for his unwavering help and visionary management in establishing the Africa Institute, which laid the inspiration for the college’s postgraduate packages. He additionally launched the PhD college students, a various group of ten students from numerous nations, and outlined the college’s programmes and areas of research.
On the shut of the assembly, H.H. Sheikh Sultan bin Mohammed led the attendees on a tour of the Dr Sultan Al Qasimi Centre in College Metropolis, the place they explored its wealthy assortment of uncommon paperwork, maps, pictures, and books gathered by H.H. the Ruler over a few years, with a particular give attention to the historical past and geography of the Arabian Gulf and past.
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