HE the Minister of Education and Higher Education and Secretary-General of the Supreme Education Council (SEC) Dr Mohamed Abdul Wahed Ali al-Hammadi said the scholastic year 2014-2015, which started yesterday, will be full of leading initiatives, outstanding activities and good tides along with keenness to strike a balance between meaningful entertainment and useful education.
Dr 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 crystallise successively during the year,” he said.
This came in a speech the minister gave on the occasion of the start of the new academic year as more than 230,000 students headed yesterday to independent and private schools in the state.
HE Dr al-Hammadi said students, while heading to schools, are seeking to get knowledge in realisation 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.
HE the Minister of 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 tours schools
HE the Minister of Education and Higher Education and the Secretary General of the Supreme Education Council Dr Mohamed Abdul Wahed Ali al-Hammadi yesterday toured Mohamed bin Abdul Wahab Independent Secondary School for Boys, Khalid Bin Al Waleed Preparatory Independent School for Boys and Zubaydah Secondary Independent School for Girls.
HE Dr al-Hammadi was briefed on preparations made by the independent schools to receive students.
