 | WISE prize winner in
´a hurry for change´ "WE are in a hurry to bring about
change because going slow is too
costly," said the winner of the first
WISE Prize for Education Fazle
Hasan Abed from Bangladesh as he
received the award from the Emir
His Highness Sheikh...
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| | Unity in fight
against AIDS
imperative,
says Sidibe |  EXECUTIVE Director of
Joint United Nations
Programme on HIV/AIDS
(UNAIDS) Michel Sidibe
said on Tuesday that unity
among partners in the fight
against AIDS has become
imperative as the world has
reached a critical point in
the spread of the disease.
In a speech delivered on
his behalf by Hind Khatib,
regional director of
UNAIDS at the ´Qatar
Symposium on: Family, the
MDGs and AIDS in the
Middle East´, Sidibe reiterated
that one of the UN
Millennium Development
Goals was to reduce the
number of HIV/AIDS cases
by half in 2015.
He said that the Middle
East has about 460,000
HIV infected cases with a
low prevalence rate of 0.1
percent. However... |
| | EMIR OPENS ADVISORY COUNCIL NEW SESSION |
 THE Emir His Highness Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al
Thani inaugurated the 40th ordinary session of the
Advisory Council on Tuesday.
The ceremony was attended by the Heir Apparent
His Highness Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al Thani and
the Special Adviser to HH the Emir His Highness
Sheikh Abdullah bin Khalifa al Thani.
Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs HE
Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabor al Thani, Deputy
Prime Minister and Chief of the Emiri Diwan HE
Abdullah bin Hamad al Attiyah and a number of their
excellencies the sheikhs, ministers, heads of the diplomatic
corps and other dignitaries were also present on
the occasion... |
| | ´Give teachers their due to
perk up education quality´ |  IMPROVING the social and financial
level status of teachers in the
Arab region is critical in ensuring
delivery of quality education in the
region, Dr Muhammad Faour, senior
associate at the Carnegie Middle
East Center in Lebanon, has said.
Speaking at the World Innovation
Summit for Education (WISE 2011)
session on ´Education and Change
in the Arab World´ on Tuesday,
Faour said that the region needs
more teachers who possess the necessary
skills to bolster the poorly
observed 21st century learning in
the classrooms.
"When it comes to social status
and financial level, teachers in the
Arab countries are relatively lower
that those serving in other... |
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