Education for a New Era

The Minister of Education and Supreme Education Council Secretary General, Sheikha Al Mahmoud, met in Doha yesterday with her Lebanese counterpart Dr. Khalid Ghabani. They discussed bilateral education issues between Qatar and Lebanon.

The Education Excellence Day (EED) Awards criteria will be announced next week. The Education Excellence Day awards ceremony held annually under the patronage of HH Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani, recognize the high achievements of students, teachers, schools and researchers in the State of Qatar and publicly celebrates their accomplishments.

For the second consecutive year, at least 1378 twelfth grade Independent school students will participate in the Qatar Senior School Certificate exit exams administered by the Supreme Education Council’s Evaluation Institute beginning May 25 through May 29, 2008. The tests in four subjects – Mathematic, Science, English and Arabic.

Abdulrahman bin Jassim School held the second music and arts forum which saw participation of students from the Ministry of Education, Independent and private Arabic schools.

Al Shahaniya School recently participated in a safety and security exhibition organized by the Qatar Scouts Association and held under the patronage of HE Sheikha Al Mahmoud, Minister of Education and Secretary General of the SEC.

A delegation from the Qatar Association for Individual Needs (Aghsan) which takes care of children with special needs visited Bilal bin Rabah School to familiarize themselves with the integration and implementation of the individual need program at the school

Hamza School participated in the education conference “ Perspectives of Technology in Education” recently organied by the Supreme Council for Information and Communication Technology (ictQATAR) in collaboration with the College of the North Atlantic (CNA-Q).

Omar School in close collaboration with Qatar Olympic Committee and other sports federations, and sports clubs organized a huge sports festival at the school’s preparatory section to celebrate the school Olympic year 2008-09.