ShareKUWAIT: The Arab Bureau of Education for the Gulf countries, in its second session on Monday, honored 18 schools that won the School Excellence Award for the public and private sectors in the bureau’s member countries, including three Kuwaiti schools. The director general of the office, Dr. Abdulrahman Al-Asmi, said in a speech during the ceremony that this award was introduced in 2021 for schools that provide outstanding educational and administrative performance, which has a positive reflection on quality and leadership.
Al-Asmi added that the award was developed according to criteria formulated in line with educational work and in accordance with international best practices in an effort to develop a road map for the competing units to achieve leadership and educational excellence. He thanked the leaders of the member states for their support. He congratulated the schools that won the Excellence Award, which is in three categories: gold, silver, and bronze.
For his part, the undersecretary of the Ministry of Education, Mansour Al-Dihani, confirmed in a similar speech that this award seeks to spread a culture of school excellence and its consecration through the promotion of educational and administrative practices and improvement in school performance.
Al-Dihani expressed his thanks to the school Excellence Award recipients for highlighting the bright aspects of schools. Kuwait’s Abdulmohsen Al-Rashid Al-Bader Elementary School for boys won gold, while Al-Yasaa Middle School for girls took the silver award. The bronze award went to Qamariya Mohammed Amin Middle School for girls. — KUNA
