09/05/2017
In a meeting with the owners of private and foreign schools yesterday.
The
Director General of Education in the Eastern Region, Dr. Abdulrahman
bin Ibrahim Al Mudairis, said that the ministry supports the legal competition between the regular educational entities, which runs according to the laws in the Kingdom, promising to take strict measures
with the non formal educational entities of kindergartens etc.., providing a full support to all owners of clear plans to replace leased establishments with modern educational buildings.
He
stressed that the ministry supports the best practices of excellence
between schools of all kinds, governmental or non governmental, pointing
that the quality education raises and increases the efficiency of
facing the challenges of life for our children in the future, pointing
that the education is marked by excellence and creativity, The 60% of the top ten in the Kingdom, who were distinguished at
the level of achievement and abilities graduated in private schools, and
there are 695 civil and international schools in the eastern region of
163,000 students.
This was in the meeting of the owners of private schools,
organized by Asharqia Chamber on Tuesday, May 9, 2017, and was
managed by the Chairman of the Education Committee in the Eastern
Chamber, Khalid Al Juwaira, and attended by many owners of private and foreign schools
in the eastern region.
He
pointed that this committee was specially designed to support the
civil education in the launch of excellence and creativity and to
overcome the challenges facing the investors of private and foreign
education. It was supported by His Royal Highness Prince Saud Bin Nayef
Bin Abdul Aziz, Prince of the Eastern Region, and is within the
goals of facilitating the licensing procedures, the
government reviews in the Committee alone, indicating that they have all
the approvals of the competent authorities in the region.
The
directors explained that the vision of the Kingdom 2030 and the
national transformation program focused on the quality of education
achieved in partnership between school, family and society, especially in the currently in
which quality and excellence has become limitless, urging all
schools to compete towards more excellence and research, and praised the efforts of private schools to make a difference in
education in the Kingdom. He said that the private and foreign
education provided a great community service that is evident in its
results from students who are characterized by skills, knowledge and
values.
There
are four fields that are the concern of the educational system in the
Kingdom. The first is the discussion between our
students males and females and how to teach them to be able to speak. The
second focuses on the school environment and how to make it a
distinctive environment because of its positive results on
the behavior of students at home and abroad, and continued to say that
the third focuses on the culture of excellence and the process of
popularization among schools throughout the Kingdom, and the fourth and
final is to establish a culture of volunteerism and social
responsibility in the minds of students, The certificate of voluntary work is approved within the graduation requirements.
At the end of the meeting, the directors urged the owners of the
private and foreign schools for further development and excellence,
saying that the Department of Education in the Eastern Region has
more support in the service of education as it represents a
national issue.