Co-ordination between the various government education organisations should be improved following the creation of a new council.
With the education system becoming less centralised, officials hope the new council will ensure the sharing of best practice.
Groups such as Abu Dhabi Education Council, Dubai’s Knowledge and Human Development Authority and the Ministry of Education will be part of the body called the Federal National Council for Co-ordination and Integration of Education.
It has been set up following a resolution from Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, Vice President of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai.
Members of the council will include representatives from the education zones of the different emirates. Dr Hanif Hassan, the Minister of Education, Mubarak al Shamesi, the director general of Abu Dhabi Education Council, and Fatma al Marri, chief executive of Dubai Schools Agency, which is part of Dubai’s Knowledge and Human Development Authority, will be on the council.
The different education authorities are developing their own policies to improve standards and the council will ensure that the minister and each authority know what other organisations are doing.
Ms Marri said the creation of the council would help to spread “best practice” across the UAE.
“We feel it will provide a good forum for exchanging the information the separate councils have gathered at ground level, so that it can be collated at one central point,” she said.
She suggested that the council, which will meet twice a year, would be a useful forum for her to pass on Dubai Schools Agency’s experience of introducing new assessment methods.
Daniel Bardsley
Page last updated 01 January 2020