Sheikh Khalifa Al Nahyan has issued a decree regulating the translation profession in the UAE, and it is very interesting news for translator education. Read the report in Al Bayan (Arabic).
اصدار قرار من قبل الشيخ خليفة آل نهيان لأجل تعديل مهنة الترجمة بالإمارات
A Diploma Is Now Compulsory
Under the new law, a diploma in translation is compulsory for certification. Imagine how many new training opportunities this creates. Universities need to respond to this kind of demand by creating certificates, online and distance courses, diplomas, and full BA and MA degrees.
A New Kind of Student
These diplomas should also be geared to a new demographic: existing practitioners, people who already work and have family commitments. That means new training content and new educational approaches. Courses in translation studies, ethics and the relevant history of translation may well be on the menu.
The practising adult translator is coming back to university for more education and training, to transform and improve their previous ways of working. In the UAE there will even be practitioners who need a linguistic upgrade alongside conceptual and technical development. That will only work if there is a team of translator trainers, researchers and scholars able to build twenty-first-century competencies and beliefs into the curricula. It demands thorough market awareness, confident use of technology, and familiarity with recent dynamic and active pedagogies in translator education, for both returning professionals and traditional students.
Training traditional students is one thing. Training adult clients who are back at university to improve their career prospects, or to comply with a legal requirement to continue practising, is quite another.
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