On Monday, 20 June 2016, the President and Ms. Edyta received the Chief Executive Officer of Silah Gulf, Mr. Ricardo Langwieder-Gorner and Mr. Matthew Sztukiewicz, Head of Silah Training Centre, to explore opportunities for collaboration. Silah Gulf (Silah) is a premium, multi-award winning customer experience solutions provider headquartered in the Kingdom of Bahrain.

Silah was launched in 2009 as a Joint Venture in the Middle East region by Bahrain’s e-Government Authority and UK based Merchants (Dimension Data) and has operations in Bahrain, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.

On Tuesday, 21 June 2016, the University Management Committee met for nearly 3 hours with colleagues from Administrative Sciences to check progress on the limited confidence programmes. It was reported that good progress has been made and that Professor Newton will spend a substantial amount of time during his July visit assessing progress and helping with some issues related to programmes improvements. The course portfolios for these programmes will be thoroughly checked over the next few weeks.