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Tue 03 Mar 2010The strange case of Citywest, 750 Saudi students and the disputed contract
There was much fanfare when a new college, Citywest Institute of Education, unveiled ambitious plans last month to bring 750 Saudi students to Dublin. But the Saudi ministry for higher education deny all knowledge of the deal. What’s going on?
THE DRAMATIC ANNOUNCEMENT two weeks ago surprised many in education circles. Colourful property developer Jim Mansfield rolled out an ambitious vision: 750 Saudi Arabian students – 600 men and 150 women plus chaperones – would travel shortly to Mansfield’s newly established Citywest Institute of Education. The Mansfield Group claimed 293 new posts, 100 of them in teaching, will be created.
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