Minister of Education: 70 Initiatives to Solve Education Challenges this Year

Doha, September 07 (QNA) - HE the Minister of Education and Higher Education and Secretary-General of the Supreme Education Council(SEC) Dr. Mohamed Abdul Wahid Al-Hammadi said the scholastic year 2014-2015, which started today, will be full of leading initiatives, outstanding activities and good tides along with keenness to strike a balance between meaningful entertainment and useful education. HE Al-Hammadi said the new scholastic year will bring many innovative solutions to the challenges that have been the subject of a complaint by the various segments of society and those we witnessed during our evaluation of the past academic year. "They have been translated into 70 initiatives that will crystallize successively during the year", he said. This came in a speech HH the Minister of Education and Higher Education gave on the occasion of the start of the new academic year as more than 230 thousand students headed today to independent and private schools in the state. HE Dr. Al Hammadi said students, while heading to schools, are seeking to get knowledge in realization of the directives and vision of HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani who says measures of our success in education and development are not only what we invest in these areas, but also the outputs that we get. He said that is what he meant by giving priority to and harnessing all available resources in order to build the Qatari man as an educated man, committed to his religion, confident of his present and ambitious for a bright future in which he will contribute to the construction of his own modern state and to raise its name high in its rightful place among nations. HE the Minister of Education and Higher Education pointed out that optimism in this scholastic year did not come from a vacuum, but rather as an inevitable result of hundreds of thousands of hours of hard work by working groups of thousands of people who have spent the past year reviewing, studying, planning, comparing, drafting, revising and monitoring so that this come back to school would be a blessed return heralding success for everyone. He said this success cannot be measured in scholastic degrees and results for students only, underlining that education should achieve the nation's major goals and objectives such as promoting the spirit of affiliation and citizenship and strengthening the identity. He added that success depends on each individual in the system of education playing of his required role and performing the important task entrusted with. Dr. Al-Hammadi said students are not the only ones who usually bear the results of success and failure because they are in the front and because they are at the centre of the educational process and purpose, adding that the responsibility entrusted with us in the upbringing and educating the students is a huge responsibility that should be shouldered by everyone working at the SEC, every license holder, academic supervisor, teacher and administrator and we should all be aware of this responsibility and work very seriously so hope for success would remain in front of the eyes of our students throughout the year from the first day until the last day of testing, nine months from today.(QNA)