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Alef Education and Microsoft Launch Artificial Intelligence Training Program for 25,000 UAE Teachers

Alef Education and Microsoft are partnering on a nationwide AI skills program designed to train twenty-five thousand educators across the UAE and strengthen the integration of artificial intelligence into future learning systems.
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