Qatar pioneer in digital transformation of education: Minister – The Peninsula

Qatar pioneer in digital transformation of education: Minister – The Peninsula

New York: Minister of Education and Higher Education H E Buthaina bint Ali Al Jabr Al Nuaimi stressed that Qatar is one of the leading countries in the process of digital transformation in education, hailing the ministry’s necessary measures to confront the COVID-19 pandemic in record time once it first broke out globally.

The Minister ascribed the country’s educational achievements to the importance the wise leadership attached to education, which contributed to providing an infrastructure of well-trained educational cadres, electronic platforms, communication networks, digital sources, and created students capable of dealing with modern technology.

In an exclusive interview with Qatar News Agency (QNA) in New York, she affirmed that Qatar, under the leadership of Amir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, is playing a leading global role through its external development aid projects in the sectors of education, health and economic empowerment.

The Minister said that t Qatar’s unrelenting calls for the need to avert education the scourge of the ongoing conflicts around the world were widely approved by the international community, most notably the adoption of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly of the draft submitted by Qatar to adopt the International Day to protect Education from Attack in 2019,