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Written By: Zaid al-Alaya’a
Article Date: Apr 29, 2008 - 2:05:09 AM
Young boys and girls perform an operetta to honor their beloved teachers.
The Ministry of Education, Vocational Training and High Education must update their strategy for teacher-related and developmental programs to train and qualify teachers, particularly basic education teachers, said Vice President Abd Rabu Hadi in a festival held to honor prominent teachers on Teacher’s Day last Sunday.
Hadi urges people in charge of the College of Education and the Ministry of Education to activate their coordination and cooperation in this regard.
Hadi said that educators are like a country’s permanent capital, and that is why the government has taken several actions to develop education-based scientific foundations.
Education has become a top priority in the government agenda because it is the key to development. This idea calls for a better focus on teachers who are the cornerstone of the education process.
Teachers must be taken care of in qualifying them, preparing them for their noble task and also in improving their living standards. This is to help teachers play their important and crucial role in building the minds of the young generation on whom we will rely for development. This celebration of honoring teachers is an attempt to show gratitude to teachers on their day.
“Teachers have tremendous responsibility on them in building minds of young generation, implementing in them values of patriotisms, peace, love, forgiveness taking them away from ideas of extremism, chaos,” said Hadi. This is in addition that teachers have to help their students innovate and encourage them for creative scientific competition,” said Hadi.
Education has to be in harmony and responds to the labor market and with modern turns and advancement in science and technology, concluded Hadi.
Minister of Education, Dr. Abdul-Salam al-Jofi, said that honoring teachers this day coincides with Yemen’s celebration of Democracy Day, representing a turning point in the course of the Yemeni history. He said that this celebration comes as a sign of gratitude of role played by teachers in building the country.
Al-Jofi said that the ministry is working now to make the school an independent body and educating children on democracy in their schools. The ministry is also training tens of thousands of teachers in new approaches in education that increase the interaction between teachers and students and among students themselves. Al-Jofi said the ministry is cooperating with donors to overcome the shortage in schools premises due to the increase in population.
Al-Jofi then talked about the monetary raise that the ministry has given to teachers that was decided in the second phase of wages strategy.
Deputy Minister of Education and head of the festival’s supreme committee said that this festival came in recognition of the efforts that teachers have and are still exerting in breeding youth.
Honorees expressed their gratitude to the ministry and promised more in their work and will continue implementing values of forgiveness, unity, and urge students to keep pace with modern world in terms of technology and sciences, said Ibtsam Abdullah Mohammed al-Domeni, on behalf of the honorees.
Al-Domeni then talked about the importance of planting virtues in students so as to protect them from all evils, urging the government to give more focus on teachers and make education at the top of its priorities.
At the end of the ceremony, a group of children performed an operetta titled By virtue of you, my teacher and then certificates of merit were handed to honorees.
