100 teachers honoured

DOHA: The Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani yesterday attended the ceremony honouring 100 teachers to mark the World Teachers Day.
Addressing the function at Katara, the Minister of Education and Higher Education H E Dr Mohammed bin Abdul Wahed  Ali Al Hammadi said, “We mark this day to acknowledge the mission of teachers, and in appreciation of their role and the great difference they are making every day in our life. “
“Improvement of teachers’ financial and professional status is on top of our priority, and our country has achieved international standards thanks to its wise leadership. Qatar has teachers from all over the world and this shows the status teachers enjoy here and the care they are getting,” said Al Hammadi. Addressing the teachers the minister said, “As teachers you need to act as fathers and mothers for the students because you are entrusted with their education and upbringing”. “This honoring has great meanings and educational implications and is a distinguishing mark on our career journey”, said Abdullah Al Nuaimi, Director of Ahmed bin Hanbal Independent School, delivering a speech on behalf of the teachers who were honoured on the occasion.
The government has developed quality training programmes for teachers, and enhanced their role in a decision making through teachers’ consultation committees and implementing rules and regulation enhancing teachers status, he added.
During the ceremony a joint message from heads of UN Agencies in Qatar was read by Faryal Khan, Programme Specialist for Education at Unesco Doha Office.
The 2030 agenda for Sustainable Developments makes critical connection between education and development and the goals of this agenda “cannot be achieved unless we increase the supply of qualified teachers and empower them to be agents of education change in the lives of the students they teach” said Khan in her speech.