Al Al-Sheikh: We’ll work together to guarantee continuation, resilience of education – Saudi Gazette

Al Al-Sheikh: We’ll work together to guarantee continuation, resilience of education – Saudi Gazette

RIYADH “” Minister of Education Dr. Hamad Bin Mohammed Al Al-Sheikh stressed that the world has been forced to carry out various preventive and precautionary measures to combat and contain Coronavirus pandemic, including closing educational institutions, leading to changing spontaneous and conventional mechanisms of our educational systems.

The minister, presiding over virtual and extraordinary meeting with his counterparts of the G20 member states here in its capacity as the G20 president, conveyed greetings of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman and Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Salman to the delegations taking part in the meeting.

He pointed out that the meeting is taking place not only out of necessity but also to project hope, as it spotlights on what has been achieved in our countries and to keep cooperating as an international community dedicating its endeavors to back up education system, worldwide.

Drawing attention to the virtual meeting of the G20, he said it discussed collective commitment, as ministers of education, to mitigate the unprecedented impact due to the coronavirus pandemic on education systems along with exchange of expertise and applicable approaches, in the member states.

He also indicated an array of structurally, fiscally and socially effective initiatives based on policies set