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| QUEEN OUTLINES "BIG AMBITIONS" FOR JORDANIAN YOUTH |
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| 30.01.2006 |
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| AMMAN (JT) — Her Majesty Queen Rania on Saturday underscored Jordan's commitment to remain at the “cutting... |
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| ...edge of the cutting edge” in education, as the Jordan Education Initiative (JEI) transforms into a global model for innovation in education following groundbreaking success. In her opening remarks at the World Economic Forum session entitled `Global Education Initiative: Transforming Education Through Public Private Partnerships,' the Queen spoke of the power of education in creating “new constellations of opportunity.” She added that in order to “unleash that power worldwide,” the world “must tackle three critical challenges: Ensuring access... improving quality... and providing the right teaching for our times.” Tackling these challenges involves embracing “opportunities to expand educational boundaries — combining technology with a new way of teaching, to expand our young people's horizons.” The Queen stressed that “globalisation has revised the education equation,” creating new opportunities to expand the traditional boundaries of education through private-public partnerships and innovation.Jordan is not wasting any time in making the most of these opportunities. “Education, innovation and information technology are the watchwords of our reforms. We may be a small country, but we have big ambitions for our young population,” said the Queen. Three years ago, business leaders at the World Economic Forum (WEF) launched the JEI, an innovative public-private partnership designed to develop new approaches to teaching and learning and creating a nurturing and enabling environment of self-discovery and experiential learning. Attesting to its success, the JEI model has, since then, found its way into Palestine, Rajasthan, India and, most recently, Egypt. Developed in partnership between the WEF and the Jordanian government, the JEI incorporates over 17 global corporations, 17 Jordanian entities, and 11 governmental and nongovernmental organisations, as stakeholders in achieving its objectives. The Queen highlighted the JEI's achievements to date, from new e-curricula in subjects like maths, Arabic, science, IT, English and civics to more than 2,000 teachers trained and more than 50,000 students taught. Queen Rania went on to add that the project's true value surpasses `wiring schools': “It is about equipping young people with skills that will serve them throughout their lives — leadership, self-confidence, creativity, ambition, and a desire to connect and contribute to the wider world.” Equally important, the JEI successfully brought together and aligned the interest of private and public sector entities and galvanised growth and created success stories in the local IT sector. She further stressed that in order to move forward, the global community must forge “new partnerships with different sectors” and create “news ways of reaching our students.” Welcoming the fact that other countries have adopted the JEI model, Queen Rania said the Kingdom looks forward to learning their “ideas for adaptations and improvements” and “importing” their “innovations”...” so that it is a truly global educational initiative.” The Queen concluded her remarks by saying: “Because after all, the Education Initiative is itself a voyage of discovery — a constant process of experimentation, evaluation, trial and error... The more we communicate with one another, the more efficient we will all be... the more successes we will find... and the more all our children will benefit.” After delivering her opening remarks, the Queen joined Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasunhara Raje, Egyptian First Lady Suzanne Mubarak, CISCO Systems CEO John Chambers, Computer Associates President John Swainson, Palestinian Minister of Telecommunications and Information Technology Sabri Saidam and Lord Carey of Clifton to discuss lessons learnt and ways to advance education through new collaborative and sustainable models of public-private partnership. |
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