DOHA: The Supreme Education Council (SEC) will open special schools for girls in the next academic year to teach banking, a senior official has disclosed.
Schools will be set up in collaboration with Qatar National Bank (QNB), Fauzia Al Khater, Director, Education Institute, SEC, told an Arabic daily.
Girls will be able to join these schools and study banking as they reach grade 10. Classes begin in September, she added.
“We conducted feasibility studies and found that it is necessary to fill the gap in this sector (banking)” said Al Khater.
The decision apparently is to prepare more Qatari women to take up jobs in the banking and financial sector.
The official said the SEC has also decided to introduce more subjects in secondary schools that can meet the labour market requirements.
“We have been receiving complaints that secondary school graduates are not qualified for the Qatari job market,” said Al Khater.
The SEC will also open pre- schools (special kindergartens) for children with disabilities in Dahl Al Hammam in the next academic year.
A special team has been trained to run the schools and study the type of disabilities that can be handled by the schools.
She said recruitment of all Independent schools will now be controlled directly by the SEC.
School directors or operators do not have the right to dismiss any teacher. This can be done only with SEC approval and the council will not grant approval until alternative arrangements are made. This is to protect students’ interests, said the official.
She, however, added that this does not mean Independent schools will lose independence. They are authorised to take decisions related to their daily functioning. New teachers will join Independent schools in the next academic year.
The SEC has accepted requests from schools to increase their administrative staff. The plan to increase the ratio of non-teaching staff is one employee for every 70 students from the existing of 1 to 100 students.
The Peninsula
