Staff Reporter
A team of 90 representatives including ministers and deputy ministers, attending the ongoing World Telecommunication Development Conference 2006, visited Qatar Foundation’s Education City as guests of ictQATAR.
“Qatar Foundation’s public relations director Robert Baxter gave a lecture to the delegates and took them on a tour of the facilities,” ictQATAR spokesperson Hamad al-Mannai said.
Zimbabwe’s Transport and Communications Minister described Education City as an ‘educational oasis’ that was unique in the world.
He said that the calibre of universities involved could trigger a “revolution in education”, although he considered it important to retain national culture within the education system.
“What is impressive is the diversity of cultures accommodated in Education City. And you have both outsiders and locals benefiting from it,” he said.
The minister described as “phenomenal” the development taking place in Qatar, and commended Qatar for making education a top priority.
Cambodian Secretary of State and Minister of Posts and Communications, Lar Narath, expressed hope that Qatar and South East Asia could collaborate in the field of education, and envisaged sending students to Education City in the future.
He explained that Cambodia had spent the past 15 years rebuilding its educational infrastructure after decades of war had ravaged the country.
Impressed with both the concept and implementation of education policy in Qatar, he recognised that Cambodia had some way to go before it would be able to reach the same level of educational development. |
