TUNIS, Tunisia: The Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (ALECSO), held a working session on the Arab participation in international assessments at the organization’s headquarters in Tunis on Friday.
The session discussed the efforts made by ALECSO to support digital transformation and capacity building in Arab educational institutions.
The following day, at a high-level meeting of Arab education council leaders, participants reviewed the alphabetical order approved by the Arab League.
The Kingdom has developed a clear and integrated strategic plan to raise the level of education in line with the strategic national directions and guidelines of the Kingdom’s leaders and in line with the Kingdom’s 2030 vision.
Dr. Hassan bin Mohsen Kharmi, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Education for General Education, who is also the head of the Saudi Arabian delegation attending the meeting, said in a statement: “The Kingdom has developed a clear and integrated strategic plan to raise the level of education in line with the strategic national directions and directives of the Kingdom’s leaders and in implementing the Kingdom 2030 vision.
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Kharmi said that Saudi Arabia has made significant progress in terms of quality assessment and education of global competition indicators. “Although the average of all OECD countries in the PISA 2022 tests declined, the Kingdom has made … significant progress in the sciences and mathematics ranks thanks to the special efforts and well-defined plans set by excellent teachers and school principals, as well as the outcomes which led to an improvement in the indexes of belonging, life, and discipline at schools across Saudi Arabia according to the PISA 2022 tests report announced in December 2023.”
The meeting started here on Thursday in the presence of the Tunisian Minister of Education Mohamed Ali Boughdiri and many experts, academics, and education specialists from the Arab countries.
Topics discussed during the meeting included reforming the educational system in the Arab nations, as well as diagnosing challenges and anticipating the future in relation to education the sector.
