| Summer Forum for Educators opened |
SALALAH HE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Marhoun Al Ma’amari, Minister of State and Governor of Dhofar, presided over the opening of the 7th Summer Forum for Educators under the theme ‘Academic acquisition, schools’ vision, teachers’ efforts and students’ ambition’at the College of Applied Sciences in Salalah on Saturday. The opening ceremony of the five-day forum was attended by HE Yahya Bin Saud Al Sulaimi, Minister of Education.
Her Excellency Dr Muna Bint Salim Al Jardaniyah, Undersecretary at the Ministry of Education for Education and Curricula, said the educational forums were among the basic tools invested by the ministry in a bid to build educational cadres.
She said the ministry, since the early years of the Blessed Renaissance, had been keen on translating the Royal Directives of His Majesty Sultan Qaboos Bin Said related to his attention to disseminating and developing education, developing the national capacities, provide them with renewable knowledge and the required skills to carry out their missions efficiently.
Screening of a documentary on previous educational forum and the presentation on the programmes and goals of the 7th summer forum were the other highlights of the programme.
The director of the International Education Institution and head of Education Department in Stockholm University in Sweden presented a working paper on the theme ‘Towards Quality Education for All’.
The opening ceremony included an operetta that comprised three tableaus that symbolised the motto and objectives of the present and the previous education forums. It also included a poem by the Saudi poet Fahiman Bin Udah Al Jihani.Three hundred participants from different education directorates, directorates of the General Diwan of the Ministry, as well as other GCC countries, Yemen, Lebanon and Belarus are taking part in the forum, which included a number of training workshops.
The forum will also include night lectures, recreational activities and a tour of the most cultural and historic features in Dhofar Governorate.
The forum will also review the experiences of participating countries in the field of raising the level of acquisitions and developing education systems and their inputs.
Oman News Agency
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