QNA
Doha
New student support mechanisms would be introduced during the academic year 2023-2024 to further empower school principals in decision-making process and make schools better with more attractive environments for students and teachers, Minister of Education and Higher Education HE Buthaina bint Ali Al Jabr Al Nuaimi has said.
Speaking at the inauguration of the annual educational forum on Monday, the minister said the ministry has started intensive work to develop comprehensive policies related to the quality of student life, including their physical and psychological safety, social participation and empowering students with disabilities and providing further communication with parents to participate in their children’s learning.
She described the forum that celebrates the new academic year as a step towards Qatar’s aspirations to achieve successful educational system outputs.
She added that the success of Qatar’s educational system is reflected in its excellent outputs - integrated and balanced personalities with good behaviour, knowledge and skills that qualify students to be good citizens through adhering to values, preserving national identity and participating in achieving sustainable development goals for their country and the world.
Nuaimi said this educational meeting comes after the ministry successfully accomplished many of its goals, highlighting this year’s goals amid the continuous evaluation of its strategy and in response to the observations and suggestions of school principals, teachers and specialists.
The ministry has committed itself to developing plans to transform the teaching profession into an attractive career path, she said, highlighting that the most important improvements and plans are based on strengthening the teachers’ status, advancing the teaching profession and developing a national framework for the teaching profession that includes professional standards and regulations of the teaching licenses.
The minister also announced the launch of a training programme to boost teachers’ experiences in line with Qatar National Vision 2030. The programme offers Qatari public school teachers training in educationally advanced countries through classroom coexistence lessons in different learning environments with their peers in those countries, a move designed to enhance Qatari teachers’ professional growth.
She thanked all educational system employees for their efforts in the last academic year and welcoming the newly joined administrative and academic cadres. Speaking at the event, Ibrahim Al Khulaifi, a professor of Psychology from Kuwait, talked about professional relations in educational institutions and their role in improving educational outcomes.
He discussed efforts to control quality, national and international accreditation, the importance of consolidating national identity and striving to adopt specific standards for that, including a code of honour in both the Arabic and English languages that includes ethical standards to be established in the educational community.
Khulaifi stressed the need to transform the school atmosphere into a vibrant corporate culture, pointing out many professional projects to improve learning outcomes and other effective professional behaviours have a fruitful dialogue.
He commended the ‘Rasekh’ initiative, which is one of Qatar Foundation’s initiatives, in partnership with the Ministry of Education and Higher Education (MoEHE), describing it as a rooting of values and a model for that we seek.
Director of the Training and Development Centre at the ministry Iman Salman Al Mohannadi stressed the importance of the educational meeting, during which the ministry meets with school leaders, teachers, those responsible for the educational process, and students’ parents/guardians, to exchange ideas and opinions and inform them of the strategic directions of the ministry.