Abu Dhabi: Shaikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Presidential Affairs and Chairman of the Council of Trustees of Khalifa Award for Education, will on April 14 honour winners of the eighth round of the award at the Emirates Palace Hotel.
The 2014-2015 round was launched under the theme ‘Distinguish Yourself, You Deserve Honour’.
At a press conference to announce winners of this edition, Amal Al Afifi, the Award’s Secretary-General, said 35 out of 500 applicants (304 from the UAE and 196 from the Arab world) had won in the 11 categories of the award.
She explained that of the 35 winners, 26 were from the UAE.
Amal announced that Juma Al Majid, Chairman of Juma Al Majid Centre for Culture and Heritage, was named Educational Personality of the year in recognition of his great educational and cultural achievements. An active member of many Arab and international cultural foundations, including the Arab Thought Foundation (ATF) in Beirut and Advisory Committee of Centre for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, Al Majid has established a number of schools, colleges and charities.
The Award aims to promote the educational field in the UAE and the Arab world by encouraging and motivating creative and outstanding individuals working in the field. This can be achieved through highlighting and supporting the status of those working in all educational fields; contributing in providing a modern and developed educational environment that encourages innovation and excellence; stimulating UAE citizens to aspire for the teaching profession; encouraging talented educators to design and apply educational projects and programmes; honouring and appreciating those working in the field of educating people with special needs; enriching the Emirati educational field with Gulf, Arab and international educational experiments in the areas of curriculum, research, educational projects, new media, sustainable environment and serving society; focusing on modern technologies and using them as developed programmes in the UAE educational process; focusing on good childhood behaviours, teachings and growth; strengthening the linguistic identity of the UAE by adopting the Arabic language as the official language and contributing to modernising the Arabic language curriculum in public and higher education in the UAE.
