UAE | Education

Abu Dhabi zone sweeps academic performance awards

Local and regional schools scanned for honour.

  • By Siham Al Najami, Staff Reporter
  • Published: 00:53 March 6, 2008
  • Gulf News

Dubai: The Abu Dhabi Education Zone received the most awards in the Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Award for Distinguished Academic Performance.

The results were announced yesterday at the Ministry of Education, marking the 10th anniversary of the award.

The assessment began on January 19, examining the best schools, best teachers, best applied project, best educational project, best academic supervisor, most distinguished family, and most distinguished and oldest adult learner.

Applied research award

The awardees were selected from each level grades both locally and the Gulf region, said Dr Hanif Hassan, Minister of Education and head of board of trustees of the award. No one was awarded in the Arab region for the new 'Arab Applied Research' category, said Dr Khalifa Al Suwaidi, Member of the Board of Trustees and head of the Judging Panel.

  • Rate this article
  • Average reader rating (0 votes) 0 Stars
Tools

Emailing an article to friend is a simple way to share a news item. Your friend will receive an email with your name and email address as well any personal message you choose to send.

The information you provide on this page will not be used to send unsolicited emails.

This service is not intended to encourage spam, and action may be taken against individuals who maliciously enter personal details of another individual.

Share this article

More from UAE Education

  1. Reinforce the positive to fight the negative

  2. Emirati students in US set to rise

  3. No friends of mother Earth

  4. Tussle on for tertiary students

All articles in Education

More from UAE

Gulf News
Popular in UAE
Readers' pictures
Your pictures

Readers' pictures

The best reader pictures from around the UAE this week

Latest news
Community Reports

More from Community Reports

Weather

More from Weather