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Reach Out To Asia is organizing its annual events under “Wheel ‘n’ Heels 2012” on Friday, 10 February 2012. Families are invited to enjoy a healthy life-style full of energy at Doha Corniche, where they can reach the final line of a set distance either by walking or on their bicycles. The event will take place at the garden of the Museum of Islamic Art from 12 noon until 10 p.m.

During a ceremony held at the Evaluation Institute to award certificates of accreditation to 14 private schools and three Kindergartens, the Evaluation Institute Director said that the awarded schools have successfully met all required criteria and standards to apply for the national private school accreditation set by the Evaluation Institute.

SEC Evaluation Institute, within its early preparations for Qatar Comprehensive Educational Assessment (QCEA), organized a workshop on how to prepare the QCEA questions. The workshop, organized with the cooperation of an international company specialized in the field of educational assessment, lasted for two weeks at the Certificate Equivalency building.

iEARN, the International Education and Resource Network, will organize two workshops for teachers on new technologies for a better educational process inside the classrooms. The workshops target teachers to explore and have first-hand contact with e-learning technologies and projects that would develop their professional skills and help them implement the best iEARN projects within the educational environment.

SEC School Evaluation Office in the Evaluation Institute concluded a training workshop for private schools on how to prepare self-evaluation studies for the National School Accreditation. The workshop was held in hotel “La Cigale” in the presence of representatives of 61 private schools.

The Supreme Education Council organized a road trip for the outstanding Qatari students who achieved the highest grades in the 2010/2011 QCEA. Accompanied with their parents, the students went for a trip in a quest for truffles.

The Supreme Education Council issued a Decree that Arabic should be the official teaching language at Qatar University. The Decree states that students will be directly admitted in all Arabic-taught programs starting from Spring 2012 without the need to study the Foundation Program, providing that the University should consider including subjects successfully completed by students in the Foundation Program into the University requirements.

Scientific Research Department in SEC’s Education Institute has launched a scientific research blog to promote the culture of scientific research among students and to raise their skills in the field.

SEC Evaluation Institute has issued the new version of Qatar Comprehensive Educational Assessment mechanisms and controls in order to assist examination officials and supervisors into a legal, decisive and correct decision-making on whether students should pass or fail the exams according to their academic performance level.
To view the new version of mechanisms and controls (Arabic version), click here.

During a press conference hold in Monday 16th of January, 2012, Ms. Amal Al-Kuwari, Director of SEC’s Information Technology Department, revealed a number of projects that SEC has enabled for the past few months. These projects concern “e-Education” and the use of technology in the field of education.