Damascus-SANA
With the virtual participation of Syria, the 18th edition of the International Conference on Education Sciences 2023 was held today in the Cuban capital, Havana.
In a speech during the conference, the Minister of Education, Dr. Darem Tabbaa, referred to the Syrian experience in continuing the educational process in all forms within schools and virtually despite the war, pointing to the continuous work to overcome difficulties and address problems to provide education for all inside and outside Syria.
Minister Tabbaa said: “The Corona pandemic posed a global threat to education, and it was preceded in Syria by a greater challenge represented in the dangerous terrorist war that destroyed more than eight thousand schools, which required the Syrian government to use technological development to deliver education to millions of children and youth who were deprived of it. Indicating that five free public governmental electronic educational platforms have been established that offer all educational curricula from early childhood to pre-university general education and all the way to vocational education, in addition to the opening of sixteen private virtual schools that provide advanced virtual education to all students inside and outside Syria who wish.
The Minister of Education stated that the appropriate digital content for distance education has been secured, in addition to working on using artificial intelligence to direct education according to the intelligences and tendencies of the child, which allows building the knowledge system of students according to their professional needs and requirements.
The minister pointed out the need to think about a better future for students based on the foundations of understanding, love, peace and citizenship that respects human existence in all its forms without any discrimination in order to present, through education, a better picture of our human existence on planet Earth.
The conference, which included virtual and in-person participation of education ministers in the countries of the Group of 77 and China, aims to exchange experiences and agree on concepts and strategies between educational institutions.
The conference sessions concluded with a speech by the Cuban Minister of Education and the Cuban Minister of Foreign Affairs, as they carried titles related to science, technology, innovation for quality education, and the educational challenges facing the countries of the South in the post-COVID-19 race.
Rehab Ali
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