United Arab Emirates Ministry of Education

About Ministry of Education
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Since the establishment of the union of the United Arab Emirates in 1971, education has received the utmost attention of the founding leader, Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan and his founding brothers. They believed that education was the cornerstone of building an enabled community that was capable of keeping pace with the advancements. Over the past decades, the wise leadership of the country was keen on building an educational system that matched its counterparts in the advanced nations. It harnessed for this purpose all the required capabilities, in order to achieve the country's agenda and national vision in this regard. Sincere efforts have also been made to develop education and adopt the best systems that achieve high-quality education outputs, in order to achieve the future visions and aspirations of the wise leadership.

Since investing in human capital is the main objective, the UAE has been keen on establishing the Ministry of Education and creating the appropriate environment to build pioneering Emirati schools, in terms of standards, form, and content they provide. It also made sure that such schools provided high-quality educational environment and owned the most technically advanced tools to be able to graduate generations that were capable of pursuing their university education confidently in higher education institutions. It is worth mentioning of course that such higher education intuitions have undergone a massive development and update process in terms of quantity and quality. It started with the opening of the mother United Arab Emirates University and then the Higher Colleges of Technology, followed by the opening of the Zayed University in Abu Dhabi and Dubai. The opening of private and government higher education institutions has continued ever since, to serve as incubators of innovation of the country's young people. They have also been provided with new academic majors that fulfill the requirements of labor market.

The MoE has also provided a smart learning system and high quality digital platforms, side by side with the continuous development of school curriculums, according to national learning standards, assessment policy that is based on assessing for learning, and highest quality standards that match the best international practices. Various learning tracks, moreover, have been provided to support the capabilities and skills of students and achieve the country's strategy of encouraging the culture of creativity and innovation through providing the students with the skills of the 21st century and motivating them to have new ideas that relate to the reality they live in and foresee the future. This will eventually help in finding radical, sustainable solutions to the major issues, improving competitiveness, and supporting smart government in its attempts to keep pace with global advancements, advance education, and push it to broad horizons of excellence, leadership, and competitiveness.