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Educational growth comes under GCC spotlight
The Omani Education Minister, Yahya Bin Saud Al Sulaimi, has said that the Arab Education Bureau will submit a detailed report on educational development to the leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member states as they meet for the 29th Summit in Muscat on Monday and Tuesday.
- Staff Report
- Published: 23:32 December 27, 2008
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- Muscat is gleaming with the municipality sprucing up key edifices and streets as the leaders of the six the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states arrive here for the two-day 29th Summit from tomorrow. Security agencies have rounded up illegal as well as overstaying residents in an overnight swoop from Friday midnight.
Muscat: The Omani Education Minister, Yahya Bin Saud Al Sulaimi, has said that the Arab Education Bureau will submit a detailed report on educational development to the leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member states as they meet for the 29th Summit in Muscat on Monday and Tuesday.
Al Sulaimi told the government-owned Arabic daily Oman that the 20th Arab Education Bureau conference, held in Doha recently, had drafted a plan for educational development, with detailed proposals on modernising curricula, textbooks and infrastructure, as well as training teachers.
On the proposal to unify curriculums among the GCC states, he said: "The bureau was concerned with laying out the general framework of educational development, but the study content should be left for the individual states."
However, he agreed there could be a unified vision as to the subjects of mathematics and science. He added some countries had begun to benefit from 'a uniform map of concepts for the study of science and mathematics.'
"A project of this type has been adopted by the Arab Education Bureau," he said.
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