QNA
Doha
The Ministry of Education and Higher Education (MoEHE) on Thursday honoured the talented students who won the 5th edition of the ‘My Disability is the Secret of My Talent’ competition, which was organised under the title ‘My Environment is My Responsibility’, to raise awareness of the importance of preserving the environment.
During the honouring ceremony attended presence of Assistant Undersecretary for Educational Affairs at MoEHE Maha Al Ruwaili and Assistant Undersecretary for Private Education Affairs at MoEHE Omar Al Nama, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Education and Higher Education HE Dr Ibrahim bin Saleh Al Nuaimi distributed certificates to the 26 winners, male and female students, in all branches, stages and levels of the competition, as well as the judges.
The competition categories included the Holy Quran, the short story, recitation, rhetoric and artistic creativity. Acting Director of the Special Education and Gifted Care Department at the Ministry of Education and Higher Education Fatima Al Saadi stressed the ministry’s keenness to provide equal opportunities for students with disabilities in order to highlight their various talents and creativity, in line with the ministry’s vision of pioneering the provision of permanent and innovative learning opportunities of high quality.
In her speech during the honouring ceremony, she said the Ministry of Education and Higher Education provided, during the previous years, many educational services and programmes in government schools for students with disabilities, which made a quantum leap in educational services that are now comparable in quality to various nations of the world at the regional and international levels.
Saadi added that the ‘My Disability is the Secret of My Talent’ competition was launched for the first time during the 2018/2019 academic year as a trial version that proved successful with students’ talents in the fields of writing short stories, memorising the Quran, recitation, rhetoric and artistic creativity.
She said the competition is launched annually to celebrate people with disabilities and to recognise their role and contributions to society.
She pointed out that this edition of the competition witnessed the addition of a new field in artistic creativity, which is handicrafts, during which many distinguished participations emerged from students, especially students of vocational tracks in secondary schools.
