Throughout the year, Spearhead Training offers a three-day fundamentals course in Dubai covering project management. It is ideal for students with no previous project management training and designed for a wide range of businesses. The course provides fundamental training that can be translated to any industrial project and offers protocols, procedures and techniques that build on personnel strengths, lower risks and cut stress.
Meirc Training and Consulting offers a series of three courses in Dubai throughout the year. These include Project Management Skills, a preparatory course for the project management professional (PMP) certification and the Meirc certificate in advanced project management. Taught in English, all but one of the courses is taught in Dubai. The courses cost between $3,700 and $3,950 each (as of January 2011).
The Site Power Training Center, accredited by the United Arab Emirates Ministry of Education, offers a five-day, 31-contact hours PMP preparation course in Dubai targeted at experienced project managers. A standards-based course, it features instructor-led classroom sessions with hands-on activities aimed at developing skills in initiating and defining projects as well as developing cost baselines and schedules, and planning personnel requirements, quality standards and communications.