Bahrain-based AMA International University has launched the second phase of its advanced structural development plan aimed at regional expansion.

The proposed phase two development plan of the university includes the establishment of an administration building, sports building, half football field, and a five-level parking building. These structures will be interconnected with bridges to provide support and facility, said a statement from AMA university.

The move, AMA said, was in line with its global vision to provide a more sophisticated quality of service to Bahrain and the whole world.

The institution’s ambition to provide quality education in the Middle East has gone beyond its borders that gave birth to the realization of the expansion plan through the leadership of the owner-founder Ambassador Amable R. Aguiluz V, the university said in a statement.

A groundbreaking ceremony was held at the AMA International University Campus, Salmabad in the presence of Dr Majid Bin Ali Al Noaimi, Minister of Education to mark the launch.

The plan will venture into a high class learning facility structure development which will highlight the strategic importance of world class educational environment and to develop a much greater level of interest in the community, the university said.

With such an increasing diverse population of students, the plan will then absolutely ensure quality support services to them.

'The all glass-walled administration building will showcase comfortable lounge area, customer-friendly administrative offices and well-equipped faculty rooms.'

'The sports building will cater to students’ various sports genres and interests to emphasize the University’s remarkable concern to students’ non-curricular activities that are necessary to their holistic development while they are honed in the University.'

'The plan will likewise include a VIP hall, a multi-purpose hall, a basketball court and lockers all to sit in the sports building adjacent to the open half football field,' it added.

Ambassador Amable R. Aguiluz V, said, “We are very happy that we are about to do justice to the commendable blue print. We at the academe realize that irrespective of where we are located, we are really more than ready to serve because AMA wants to remain closely associated with every new student in the gulf region.”

Atop the much larger project at the half of the acre compound will house a fully air-conditioned five-storey parking structure conceived for a more convenient and spacious parking lot making it accessible for students, staff and visitors alike.

This effort combines innovative architecture with the technologies to minimize waste of space. It is a demonstration of AMA’s vision for how society could maximize the use and develop limited spaces yet being able to provide optimum service, he stated.

The approval of the phase two development plan is a shared philosophy of excellence to the locals of the gulf whose common objective is to steward to better education of its future generation, he added.

Though phase two has still to come at the second half of the calendar year, the University continues to provide education to more than 5 000 students from around the gulf region to experience the unequalled expertise of highly competent professors, said Amable.-TradeArabia News Service