The Ministry of Education and Emirates Telecommunications ’Etisalat’ signed a cooperation pact to provide UAE government schools with IP/MPLS internet connectivity and technical support services. The two parties agreed to formulate a taskforce committee that will put a timeline for implementing the articles of the memorandum of understanding.
The pact was signed on Sunday by HE Dr. Hanif Hassan, UAE Minister of Education and Mohammad Hassan Omran, CEO of Emirates Telecommunications ’Etisalat’ at the premises of the Presidential Affairs Ministry in the attendance of Rashid Salem Lakhraibani Al Nuaimi, Director General of the Ministry of Education, Mohammad Khalfan Al Qemzi, Executive Director of Etisalat, Ahmed Abdul Karim Julfan, Executive Director for Operations, Essa Al Haddad, Executive Director for Marketing, Ahmed Bin Ali, Deputy CEO and a number of officials in the Ministry and Etisalat.
After signing the MOU, the minister said: ’We express our appreciation and gratitude to the Emirates Telecommunications ’Etisalat’ for supporting education and providing an attractive educational environment to our students. The information technology field witnesses great development and sheds its services to education in terms of education and electronic services. Such facilities will definitely encourage our students to develop their skills and achieve the best educational practices and enable the UAE to be a regional educational hub’.
Dr. Hanif Hasan emphasized that the agreement comes as part of the ministry’s initiatives to reform education, encourage communication between the Ministry of Education with the public and private sectors and apply educational best practices and strategies. The ministry also supports the schools’ administrations to apply the project in the correct timeline.
The purpose of the pact is to raise the efficiency of schools, students, encourage them to more efforts and creative thinking. Using modern technology in daily curriculums will help teachers raise their efficiencies, broaden their creative thinking and encourage them to more learning and analytical thinking. Promoting policies and regulations for developing human resources qualifications is one of the main priorities of the federal government strategic plan.
Mohammad Hassan Omran said: ’The 21st century is recognized with various challenges; it opened new trends for education establishments all over the world. Although the information technology revolution encourages knowledge among students and teachers, yet it draws big responsibilities towards this field as well. I encourage the education field to use our modern technological services and guide students to follow the correct paths of knowledge and information sources’.
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