“If there’s one thing Abdullah Al Sharhan has observed in his long career, it’s that there is value in hands-on’ experience. The geologist who went on to develop the first water distribution network in Kuwait before becoming Minister of Communications changed jobs 10 times over the last 50-plus years, so learning on the job has always been a fact of life. When he went on to establish a new private college in 2003 based on the Australian system of technical education, hands-on project-based learning became a cornerstone of its philosophy.”