His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai underlined the importance of education in the prevailing global scenario and urged the educators to join hands for making the government’s education plans successful. The education policy, it is recalled, was approved during recently held meeting of the cabinet.

Faculty shortage in Abu Dhabi’s schools would be a thing of past from this session. Abu Dhabi Education Council [ADEC] recruited as many as 276 new teachers for the subjects of information technology, physical education, arts and music.

Shortage of teachers for nursery classes has also been addressed by the authorities from this academic session by recruiting new faculty members, more from Emirates in line with government’s Emiratisation plan announced in June.

Sometimes there are technical crashes at public schools’ information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure. Now these problems can be restored somewhat within minutes with new central monitoring system of the Abu Dhabi Education Council (ADEC).

This is the latest system which is an integrated with IT management solution and it has been designed to examine and handle public schools’ IT infrastructure.

A comprehensive strategy has been started by Abu Dhabi Education Council (ADEC) and the main idea behind it is to improve student achievements. It would also mean that private education in Abu Dhabi will be made world class and the onus of the same is now on the government.

Abu Dhabi Education Committee in alliance with MUSANADA prepared an essential emergency set up in training for the serious rain season, during the stipulation of all defensive actions to shun threats done by serious rains and sturdy winds, in a way to make sure that the safety and security of every students and employees in Abu Dhabi schools.

The SEMI High Tech U Programme named Al Nokhba programme which was held in Singapore has been completed by a group of Abu Dhabi school students. This programme was sponsored by Abu Dhabi Education Council
(Adec) and Advanced Technology Investment Company (ATIC).

As soon as the last days of the new school model come to an end, there will be a thorough study of the performance of it so that the problems can be pinpointed and resolved.

Data has shown that every year some 10,000 pupils leave state schools still looking for remedial English classes. They are in need for such help even before they can join university degree courses.