Ministry of Education concludes e-training of 182 Arab Reading Challenge judges in preparation for qualifications

  • Date: 19-Apr-2020
  • Source: Emirates 24/7
  • Sector:Education
  • Country:GCC
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Ministry of Education concludes e-training of 182 Arab Reading Challenge judges in preparation for qualifications

The Ministry of Education has recently concluded its e-training sessions of 182 judges from different school across the UAE, through the MS Teams online platform, to qualify them to participate in the 5th edition of the Arab Reading Challenge.. The Arab Reading Challenge, which is held in the United Arab Emirates each year, attracted 21 million students for its 5th edition, with an increase of 55 percent compared to the number of participants in the previous edition that recorded participation of 13.5 million students from 49 countries.. The total number of participants in all five editions of the Arab Reading Challenge reached to more than 54 million students, who filled 50.5 million passports to summarise the books they read, while 96,000 schools are participating in the fifth edition of the challenge compared to 67,000 in the previous edition of the challenge, with an increase of 43 percent..