National education panel's activities highlighted

(MENAFN- Gulf Times) The Ministry of Culture and Sports organised yesterday a seminar on the activities of the National Commission for Education, Culture and Science (QNCECC) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) on the occasion of the anniversary its founding on 4 November 1945.
During the seminar which was held at the Ministry's headquarters, Cultural Consultant at QNCECC, Salem Bu Sharbak presented a detailed information about the commission since its establishment on February 25, 1962.
The committee joined a number of Arab, regional and international organisations, explaining that the QNCECC has joined a number of Arab, regional and international organisations, including (Unesco) in 1972, the Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organisation (ALECSO) in 1975, the Arab Bureau of Education for the Gulf States in 1975 and the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (ISESCO) in 1982.
He pointed out that the QNCECC plays an active role in achieving the objectives of Unesco, which are consistent with the objectives of education in Qatar on the one hand and with the objectives of the QNCECC on the other, through the implementation of many of its programmes, projects and activities in various fields and the co-ordination with national, regional and international partners to promote citizenship, human rights, justice and human dignity.
The QNCECC aims to make Qatar's membership in international, regional and Arab organisations a successful investment that benefits all aspects of the educational, scientific and cultural activities in the country and contributes to the national development process according to Qatar National Vision 2030, he added.
He addressed the important objectives of the commission, represented in strengthening communication between regional and international organisations and various bodies in Qatar, including familiarising the citizens with various activities of organisations calling for understanding and rapprochement between the countries of the world in general, and Islamic and Arab countries in particular as well as providing advice to the delegations of Qatar to the general conferences of the organisations, and to the official bodies in the State concerned with the programmes of cultural, educational and scientific organisations, and providing assistance to the competent organs of the State with a view to enabling them to make maximum use of the activities of these organisations.
He pointed out that the QNCECC aims to meet the needs of the ministries and institutions concerned with the activities and programmes of the organisations related to education, culture and science, and to highlight the status of Qatar locally and internationally in the fields of education, culture, science and communication.
The QNCECC also seeks to open channels of communication with the Qatari public in all its categories through different media outlets.
On the values and principles on which the commission builds its work, Bu Sharbak said that the QNCECC believes in belonging, loyalty, good citizenship, commitment, responsibility, truthfulness and honesty.
He pointed out that the commission's references are represented in the Qatari constitution, Qatar National Vision 2030 and the Cabinet's Decision organising the work of the commission, as well as the regional and international instruments and agreements related to the work of organisations.
He added that the organisational structure of the commission is headed by HE the Minister of Education and Higher Education Dr Mohamed Abdul Wahed Ali al-Hammadi.
Bu Sharbak said that the Doha Secondary School for Boys was the only school to join the Unesco's World Network of Associated Schools, until 2014.
The number of schools that have joined the network from the three educational levels so far is 39 schools for boys and girls, he added.

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