UAE Business: UAE roots for innovative educational system at GESS – Gulf Digital News

UAE Business: UAE roots for innovative educational system at GESS – Gulf Digital News

UAE is keen to implement an innovative educational system that strengthens future skills and enshrines the concepts of global citizenship through school curricula, said the UAE Minister of Education, Dr Ahmad Belhoul Al Falasi.

Opening the 15th edition of GESS Dubai, the leading education conference and exhibition in the Middle East region, Al Falasi said: “Such a system should enhance the comprehensive concept of quality of life, empower individual learning, nurture the gifted and talented, and anticipate the future of higher learning, scientific research and focus on quality and governance in higher education institutions, ensuring the efficiency of leading and academic institutions and bodies, and aligning higher education outputs with the needs of the future labour market.”

“Funding, developing distinguished research cadres, and providing supportive and stimulating legislation for scientific research are vital matters that are subject to great attention within our educational agenda. In addition to this, focusing on an advanced and flexible national qualifications system that copes with the requirements of future economic development, and the establishment of funding programmes are crucial.

Competitiveness

“Competitiveness in higher education institutions and the application of standards and systems for quality assurance of technical and vocational education and training, as well as support for the scientific