26/10/2016
Within
A Workshop in Asharqia Chamber
The supervisor of the Office of National
Education in the Eastern Province ( the former head of the department of national
and foreign education ) Ahmed bin Abdullah Al Sleem, stressed the importance of
improving and supporting investment in national and foreign education,
pointing to improtant formal decisions in support of this planning.
He
said in a workshop organized by the Education Committee of Asharqia Chamber on Monday October 24, 2016 that based on the informations of repeated meetings and
consultations with the owners of the national and foreign schools shows the need for more coordination
between the government authorities with each other and between them and
the owners of the national and foreign schools, therefore
the idea of forming a committee under the name of the investment committee of
civil education support and foreign mission was launched to support and
encourage national and foreign education by facilitating the necessary procedures and
overcome the difficulties that may face the development of services given to
investors in this field.. referring to his Royal Highness the Prince of the
Eastern Province approval of the suggestion and the need to begin to implement
it.
He
noted that there has been a formation of the Committee, headed by General
Director of Education in the Eastern Province and the membership of all government
authorities, including permanent
representatives starting from a representative of the civil defense department
in the Eastern Province, and a representative of the region secretariat, the Labor
agency, and finally a representative of the Education Committee of East Chamber, in addition to membership representatives
from government authorities invited in
case of needing them, including a
representative of the income and Zakat, the human resources Fund, a
representative of the general institution for social Insurance, and a
representative of the Ministry of Commerce.
Al Sleem said, speaking in front of a
number of owners of national schools,
including members of the national education
Committee in the Chamber that the goals of
the Committee is to review and record the criteria for investment in national and foreign education issued from all
represented parties in the mentioned
committee, such as the conditions and standards of education and the
requirements of the municipality, and
the requirements of civil defense, and work agency systems, as well as to the views
of investors and regarding that.
He
added that among the missions and activities of the suggested committee also is to do a review and
facilitate the mechanism for issuing national and foreign schools and languages institutes,
national centers of educational and training supervision, by raising the standard of coordination between all concerned
authorities, and the establishment of (TheInvestor Guide) which includes all
the requirements and procedures and
standards related to investment in the national and foreign education, and releasing it on the website of the General Adminstration
of Education in the Eastern Province (Office of national
Education icon), and organizing programs, meetings and
activities that support existing investors and attract new investors, and studying and overcoming the general obstacles
facing investments in the national and
foreign education, so to
support the benefit of investors in national and foreign educational institutions
owned by the private sector and for public investment in municipality and by
facilitating the procedures and conditions related to that
Al
Sleem pointed to the suggested steps to prepare the Committee and the mechanism
of its work, starting by holding workshops involving a group of administrators
and supervisors national and foreign schools Office of Education owners to
study the performance and requirements of all official Committees that
arerelated to invest in national and foreign education, as well as the study of
the obstacles the investors face with these
authorities.
For
his part, Chairman of the Education Committee of Asharqia
Chamber Khalid Al Jwairh said that the subject of the Committee
and participating in it, and hosting a workshop in this regard was essential in
the discussions of the Committee in its last meeting, that was allocated to discuss the work plan for
next year, with what suits the
terms of the Kingdom Vision 2030.
