December 31 is the deadline for receiving applications from candidates for the Khalifa Education Award

The General Secretariat of the Khalifa Educational Award revealed on its website that December 31 is the last date for receiving applications from candidates to participate in the 18th session of the award 2024-2025.

The General Secretariat of the Award stressed, during the Applied Excellence Workshop organized “remotely” to introduce the fields of educational research, educational writing for children, and innovative educational projects and programs, the importance of employing scientific research in advancing the education system at its various levels of study, whether university or pre-university.

The Secretary-General of the Award, Amal Al-Afifi, stressed the importance of this workshop, which aims to shed light on the most prominent developments regarding the use of scientific research to support the development of educational work, as well as educational writing that targets children in terms of developing the quality of content, tools, message, and values ​​that this should carry. The cognitive content of the student, in addition to highlighting the role of educational projects and programs in promoting and supporting the concepts of innovation in the educational process with its various elements.

Al-Afifi explained that the workshop dealt with an axis about the field of educational research, in which Dr. Al-Sayed Daadour, a full-time professor at Damietta University, and Dr. Hanaa Hussein, a professor of education at Ain Shams University, spoke about the role of educational research in developing the education system and employing advanced methods and tools in scientific research that enhance the improvement of the process. Educational, and in the field of educational writing for children, Dr. Zaher Al-Daoudi, Associate Professor at the College of Arts and Social Sciences at Sultan Qaboos University, and Atef Al-Ayyida, reviewed An educational expert at the Ministry of Education in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, discussed the mechanisms of educational composition for children and the necessity for the message directed to the child to carry values ​​and enhance positivity in the hearts of children, in addition to providing the child with skills that open wide horizons for him to imagine and keep pace with the development witnessed by the era. The workshop also addressed an axis about the field of Innovative educational projects and programs, in which Dr. Shawqi Kharbash, Director of the Higher Colleges of Technology in Al Ain, spoke about the importance of projects and programs in promoting innovation in the learning environment by employing the best scientific and applied practices. With the aim of spreading the culture of innovation in the learning environment, stressing that innovation today represents one of the prominent foundations upon which the process of modernizing the learning system at various educational levels is based.