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The Gulf's Industrial AI Curriculum Is Missing Its Middle Rung

Across the Gulf's flagship industrial operators, public commitments to AI reskilling have assembled a recognisable two-track system: research master's programmes at KAUST and MBZUAI at the top, SDAIA and ADNOC bootcamps at the bottom. The middle rung — the plant-embedded practitioner who can translate an anomaly-detection alert into a shutdown call at a DCS console at 3am — is nowhere in the publicly disclosed plan documents.