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‘Future Schools’ a key UAE project: Minister

DUBAI — The ‘Al Ghad Schools’ or ‘Future Schools’ project is one of the key educational projects in the country, the Minister of Education, Dr Hanif Hassan, has said.

The project, he said, would help the country’s educational system to emerge on a par with the international standards.

The minister said this while touring the education zones. He was also visiting schools nominated to be included in the list of ‘Future Schools’ project. Dr Hassan was accompanied by the Khaleej Times reporter during his visits to Ajman and Umm Al Quwain.

Dr Hassan reiterated that Ministry of Education (MoE) was going to provide all support and help to the UAE nationals to enhance their skills and abilities. “This is one of the main goals the ministry is focusing on in its ‘Future Schools’ project,” he added.

As the minister met with officials, including education zones’ directors and principals of the ‘Future Schools’, he stressed that the incentives to be given to the staff at these schools would depend solely on their performance.

“An employee spending long hours at the workplace doesn’t essentially mean he or she is a performer,” Dr Hassan noted in response to a query about increasing the working hours at ‘Future Schools’ compared to the other schools.

The minister also made it clear that the inspection system and regular visits by inspectors to schools to evaluate the performance of teachers was a traditional style and would not be applied at ‘Future Schools’.

“The inspection system at these schools will be completely transparent,” Dr Hassan said. According to the minister, this transparent system would entail that the schools’ management and teachers would have to recognise the strong and weak points of their work so that they could improve their skills.

The minister also revealed that each school included in the project would be provided with an education consultant, who, while not being a substitute for the inspector, will help the school management develop the education process.

50 schools selected for the project

By a staff reporter

DUBAI — The Ministry of Education (MoE) has concluded the selection of the ‘Future Schools’. A total of 50 schools have been chosen for the project.

The MoE has also nominated 63 educationists, principals and inspectors for the ‘Future Schools’ project.

Among the nominated are a woman director at the Kindergarten department, a senior inspector, and a project coordinator at the Policies and Planning Office at the MoE, along with other three inspectors in Al Ain, Ajman, and Fujairah. As many as 57 officials are undergoing a training workshop on ‘The Guidance Programme.’ The training course is supervised by Fred Brown, an education expert at the Policies and Planning Office, MoE, and Lillian Brinkley and Jellan Movester, both from Principals’ International School.

The workshop is being held at the Unesco regional centre in the University City of Sharjah.