'Like everything the plan is to implement this right away and for all current and incoming teachers, but whether it will happen is another issue altogether.......
The intention is good, but the implementation may be a disaster.'
In my experience of the SEC they are a knee-jerk reactive organisation who rely on outside experts telling them what should be done. The SEC try and comply without knowing or understanding why they are doing such measures.
12 months ago they tried registering all teachers in Qatar and propelling them through a variety of levels of qualification. Only the first step was implemented - giving information on qualifications and experience.....since then nothing further happened and the whole process appears to have been shelved- but of course the whole organisation is so opaque no one knows what is occurring. The move in the OP appears to be the SEC's 'plan B', having realised that their administration could not cope with their original plan which detailed the fact (off the top of my head) that less than half of all the teachers in Qatar had any form of recognised teaching qualification.
The same is true of their school validation programme - it starts with much fanfare but target dates are pushed further and further back until everyone has forgotten about them.
I doubt these measures will come to fruition, or if they do, the impact on schools will be slight;in reality you have to have someone standing in front of a class and schools can only recruit once a year.
'Like everything the plan is to implement this right away and for all current and incoming teachers, but whether it will happen is another issue altogether.......
The intention is good, but the implementation may be a disaster.'
In my experience of the SEC they are a knee-jerk reactive organisation who rely on outside experts telling them what should be done. The SEC try and comply without knowing or understanding why they are doing such measures.
12 months ago they tried registering all teachers in Qatar and propelling them through a variety of levels of qualification. Only the first step was implemented - giving information on qualifications and experience.....since then nothing further happened and the whole process appears to have been shelved- but of course the whole organisation is so opaque no one knows what is occurring. The move in the OP appears to be the SEC's 'plan B', having realised that their administration could not cope with their original plan which detailed the fact (off the top of my head) that less than half of all the teachers in Qatar had any form of recognised teaching qualification.
The same is true of their school validation programme - it starts with much fanfare but target dates are pushed further and further back until everyone has forgotten about them.
I doubt these measures will come to fruition, or if they do, the impact on schools will be slight;in reality you have to have someone standing in front of a class and schools can only recruit once a year.