Education Minister: Qatar to restore damaged schools in two weeks



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The Minister of Education and Higher Education in the interim government, Tariq Al-Majzoub, announced that the ministry will soon sign an agreement with the Qatar Development Fund to begin work on repairing several schools that were damaged by the port explosion. from Beirut, during the current two weeks of the general shutdown in the country. Please note that UNESCO has partnered with the Education Above All Foundation, which was established by a global initiative established in 2012 by Sheikha Moza bint Nasser in Qatar, to achieve quality education in Lebanon, which includes the allocation $ 10 million to rebuild or restore damaged schools and re-education. Get back on track.

Transparency with Crown

The Minister of Education confirmed at a press conference that given the impossibility of fully returning to urban education, in order to protect the health of our children, we decided to complete comprehensive education once the general closure period was over, and we studied some exceptions , calling on schools to “take advantage of these two weeks to evaluate the work.” That “during these two weeks we will complete the repair and equipping of educational institutions damaged by the explosion in the port of Beirut.”

After much criticism from public education teachers, accusing the ministry of hiding the number of infections in schools, Al-Majzoub revealed that the ministry is preparing an electronic program to track cases of people infected with the “Corona” virus, and setting up a website to announce the number of infections in each school, believing in the principle of transparency. He emphasized that “the health advisor or nurse of each school must apply the hygiene and sterilization norms, and the Ministry will follow up on their visits to the schools to ensure that the procedures of the health guide are implemented.”

Student dollar
Al-Majzoub emphasized that “the state must place students and students inside and outside Lebanon among its priorities, and the first issue that worries the Lebanese is how to complete the school year and not lose it,” noting that “the Ministry Education and Higher Education should listen to the complaints of citizens “And their reviews, and the search for solutions”, declaring an understanding of the fear of the parents of the students for the health of their children. to avoid being lost, and that we must stop introducing student rights into political agony. “

Al-Majzoub called for the “unrolling of the student dollar. Students abroad have suffered both and are about to leave, and their cause should be an occasion to stimulate their motivation.” He believed that “some do not want education, either inside or outside Lebanon.”

Generalization of Lebanese consumption
It should be noted that after the Governor of the Banque du Liban, Riad Salameh, prohibited issuing a circular to banks regarding the transfer of the amount of ten thousand dollars at the official exchange rate for Lebanese students, the Banque du Liban issued a statement to recall the mandatory application of the decision on transfers to Lebanese students abroad, stressing that all banks must adhere to Immediate Provisions.




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