Supreme Education Council to recruit 1,600 teachers for 2015-2016
In a move to address the shortage of academic staff in Independent schools, the Supreme Council of Education (SEC) is currently working to recruit 1,600 teachers before the new academic year 2015-2016 begins in September,
Teachers will be recruited from Arab countries such as Palestine, Egypt, Jordan and Tunisia, an Arabic daily reported yesterday.
According to a source at the SEC, in the first phase, 998 teachers with specialisation in 20 subjects will be recruited.
The first batch of recruitment for the academic year 2015-2016 includes 182 maths teachers, 182 Arabic language teachers, 99 for science, 34 for biology, 11 for physics and 45 for social science.
Also, 15 teachers were recruited to teach children with special needs and three for speech therapy.
SEC conducted interviews for displaced Palestinian teachers in Egypt and another set of such teachers will be interviewed in Jordan today.
Ibrahim Al Kuwari, HR director at SEC will head the team which will conduct interviews in Jordan for two days to recruit Jordanian and Palestinian teachers in 20 specialisations. [The Peninsula]
Another question is whether or not the SEC will support these teachers when some parents and children demand good grades or threaten expat teachers when little Ahmed or Amal doesn't perform up to government set standards.
Having worked in the GCC education system for 20 years, until and unless the parents, children and the authorities are accountable and responsible for their own roles in the education system, nothing will change.
There are a good number of families and good people in the educational institutions and other bodies who DO take education seriously as a responsibility and their children can and do succeed on their own merits - yet they are often (unfairly) lumped in with groups who feel they and their children are entitled to the rewards without putting in the effort.
It is very sad when a child comes to me and says teacher I want A why you "give" me C? Every time I have to explain that I don't give them anything, they earned that C based on their work and effort.
As for qualified teachers, it doesn't really matter if they are good teachers if they are not supported by their employers when it comes to enforcing the educational and behaviour standards.
The question is whether these teachers are both qualified to do the job AND familiar with modern teaching methods
Foreign teachers never is a good idea.