Qatar Academy (all campuses) won most honours under the outstanding primary student category of the 14th Education Excellence Day (EED) Award for 2021, it was announced on Monday.
Al-Bayan Preparatory and Amna Bint Wahab Preparatory Schools for Girls were the most awarded under the outstanding preparatory student category.
Qatar Banking Studies and Business Administration Secondary School and Al Bayan Secondary School for Girls received the largest number of awards under the outstanding secondary student category.
The share of Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar of the EED Awards was the highest under the outstanding undergraduates category.
The winners, announced by the Organising Committee for the EED Award, will be honoured at the award’s closing ceremony on March 1, 2021.
During a press conference held by the committee, Dr Hamda Hassan al-Sulaiti, the executive chairperson of the EED Award, revealed the winners and their respective medals under each of the nine categories of the award. The conference was attended by the heads of the EED Award jury committees, the winning students and their families as well as the two winning schools and teachers, and the winners under the MA and PhD holders’ category.
Dr al-Sulaiti stated: “I am pleased to convey to you the greetings and congratulations of HE Dr Mohammed Abdul Wahed Ali al-Hammadi, the Minister of Education and Higher Education and chairman of the Board of Trustees for the Education Excellence Award.
The official expressed her happiness for the 71 winners were selected from 374 applicants under all categories, noting that the Excellence Ambassadors Programme, introduced this year, will include a group of former winners - to support and raise awareness among distinguished students who wish to apply for the award in the future.
Dr al-Sulaiti called on all the winners to remain on the path of excellence and leave distinct marks in their future.
The executive chairperson of the EED Award revealed that the applications went through multiple stages of arbitration, the most important of which was the screening stage, where the application files were reviewed for eligibility and conformity with the terms and conditions before evaluation. Subsequently, the applications were evaluated according to their grades and under a basis of competitiveness.
Dr al-Sulaiti explained that more than one winner can still claim the same award without taking into account a specific ceiling for the number of winners if the grades were even, which was the case of the Outstanding School category that witnessed two government schools winning the award this year. However, the award was withheld for the Outstanding Scientific Research Project and the Outstanding Private School categories, which reflects the committee’s keenness and accuracy during the evaluation of the applications.
The EED Award includes nine categories: primary, preparatory, and secondary students; university graduates; MA and PhD holders; outstanding teacher and school, and outstanding scientific research project.