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The School Evaluation Office of the Evaluation Institute today released the periodical Triennial School Review for twenty Cohort II Independent Schools for girls and boys.

the Triennial School Reviews for Cohort II schools

At the culmination of the first year of the RSDU pilot project, a mutual exchange visit between Umm Al Qura Model School for Boys and Oxley Park Primary School was planned. This was to facilitate research dialogue between the students of the two schools and provide an opportunity for those students who had collaborated on joint research projects in the two countries and/or comparative research to meet and explore their findings further. It was also a very important opportunity for students from both countries to learn about each other’s culture and school systems.

The Advising and Career Development Office recently organized an information session for Qatari students aimed at preparing students psychologically, academically and socially before their departure to study in the United Kingdom.

The Supreme Education Council’s Education Institute will soon begin accepting applications for licenses to operate the sixth cohort of Independent schools which begin operation in the academic year 2009-2010.

The Education Institute of the Supreme Education Council in collaboration with the College of Education at Qatar University will co-sponsor Reflective Practice: The First Annual Conference on Action Research to be held on Saturday, June 21, 2008 at the Four Seasons Hotel from 8:30am to 3:00pm.

H E Sheikha Ahmed Al-Mahmoud, the Minister of Education and Secretary General of the Supreme Education Council and Dr. Hamda Al-Sulaiti, the assistant director at the Evaluation Institute met separately a delegation from Abu Baker Aseedeq School which was recently presented with the Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Award for “Distinguished School for the Year 2007-08”.

The Excellence Day Review Committee held an orientation meeting on June 16, 2008 to elaborate the new rules and criteria of obtaining an Education Excellence Award. Prospective students and their families attended the meeting that was held at Al Sharq Hotel.

In line with the continuous follow-up and monitoring to help overcome registration issues in the Independent schools, the SEC’s Education Institute identified as of June 11, 2008, that there are 1138 vacant seats for students to enroll at all educational stages.

Al Nahda School organized an “Excellence Forum” aimed at developing a strategy for joint cooperation among the Independent schools and raising the level of education and learning.