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HE Sheikha Hind bint Hamad al Thani, vice-chairperson and CEO of Qatar Foundation (QF), has called for global education to make a ‘quantum leap’ driven by innovation.
She made the call while addressing the Education World Forum in London, UK.
The Forum, which will conclude today, is the world’s largest gathering of education and skills ministers, with its 2019 theme being ‘What we should do with what we know: Developing education policy for implementation, impact and exponential success.’
In her speech to an international audience of education leaders at a keynote session titled ‘Lifelong learning and life-wide learning’, Sheikha Hind emphasised QF’s commitment to providing quality education and the importance of innovation in shaping its unique education ecosystem, which began with the establishment of Qatar Academy Doha more than 20 years ago.
She explained how this ecosystem has since been expanded and advanced through the development of Education City and QF’s own lifelong learning model, and is now focusing on identifying and deploying innovative approaches to addressing gaps and opportunities in Qatar’s society.
“We have never stopped looking to innovate in education. In Qatar, we’ve already seen what this makes possible,” Sheikha Hind said. “But globally, education has not experienced a truly major transformation in my lifetime – a lifetime that has seen the cutting-edge of technology go from fax machines, to personal computers, to mobile and nanotechnology. Education, rather than remaining earthbound, has to make the sort of quantum leap that technology and communication have made many times in a single generation.”
Sheikha Hind was joined at the session by Esteban Moctezuma, secretary of Public Education, Mexico; Prof Alexander Lorz, minister of education, Ministry of Education, State of Hesse, Germany; and Commissioner J Prospero E De Vera III, officer-in-charge, Commission on Higher Education, the Philippines.
QF’s participation in this year’s edition of the Forum reflected how, in its mission to support the development of Qatar and its people, it has created a pioneering model of education that is constantly evolving and innovating.
By offering world-class education in a local context – with eight international partner universities standing alongside QF’s schools and its own research-focused university, Hamad Bin Khalifa University – and a diverse, experiential, and specialised learning experience, QF is nurturing lifelong learners equipped to make their mark on Qatar and the world, and be active global citizens.
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