{"id":17976,"date":"2019-11-21T08:48:22","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T04:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/?p=17976"},"modified":"2019-11-21T08:48:22","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T04:48:22","slug":"we-must-prepare-kids-of-today-for-the-future-said-experts-in-a-session-on-education-at-the-knowledge-summit-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/we-must-prepare-kids-of-today-for-the-future-said-experts-in-a-session-on-education-at-the-knowledge-summit-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"We Must Prepare Kids Of Today For The Future, Said Experts In A Session On Education At The Knowledge Summit 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

We still haven\u2019t figured it all out in terms of education, said Hassan Damluji, Deputy Director of<\/em>\u00a0Global Policy<\/em>\u00a0and Advocacy at the Bill and Melinda Gates\u00a0Foundation, during a session titled \u2018Education Accelerators: Sustainable Solutions\u2019 at the Knowledge Summit 2019 in the Dubai World Trade Centre.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor example, when money was donated for polio eradication (including a substantial amount from the UAE), it resulted in a 99.9% reduction of the disease,\u201d he said. \u201cHowever, injecting cash into education cannot guarantee results. Great progress was made in terms of ensuring children were attending schools, but 617 million children around the world were still unable to read a single sentence.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe way you develop skills is by using the knowledge that you have,\u201d Damluji added. \u201cGoogling lets you confirm what you believe. People who know the most are the ones who do the most research. We do need to build skills, but learning facts is a crucial part of education.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dima Najim, Managing Director, Education for Employment \u2013 UAE (EFE-UAE), said she was a second-generation Palestinian refugee and the \u201conly thing my grandparents were able to take from their homes was their knowledge and skills.\u201d<\/p>\n

She touched on the fact that the MENA region has a young population, 28% of whom are unemployed, stressing that jobs were a priority. \u201cHow does a young person think about global warming while trying to find a job?\u201d she asked, questioning whether we were teaching children the correct skills for today.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe must prepare the kids of today for the future,\u201d she said, noting that UAE universities were offering employability skills, but as an extra option, adding that there should be more incentives to attend.<\/p>\n

Ralph Tabberer, Owner and Chairman\u00a0of\u00a0BBD Education, spoke about the challenges of writing a curriculum and said there was no one global answer \u2013 it was always being customised. \u201cEducation is always about a conversation,\u201d he said. \u201cIt gives us our heritage and culture. It is important to teach people about the past.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tabberer observed that the Middle East region\u2019s strength was family interaction. Nonetheless, he said it was important not to be locked in the past, but to strive to do innovative things.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think there is a lot of fear in the educational world \u2013 fear of change \u2013 and this is an enemy of creativity,\u201d Najim concluded. \u201cWe need to look at things outside of the box. There should be a mix between skills and knowledge \u2013 it shouldn\u2019t be a competition.\u201d<\/p>\n

Organised by the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Knowledge Foundation (MBRF), the Summit is taking place November 19-20 at the Dubai World Trade Centre under the theme \u2018Knowledge for Sustainable Development\u2019<\/em>. The event is set to showcase relevant experiences and best practices that have helped countries on their development journey in various sectors.<\/p>\n

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We still haven\u2019t figured it all out in terms of education, said Hassan Damluji, Deputy Director of\u00a0Global Policy\u00a0and Advocacy at the Bill and Melinda Gates\u00a0Foundation, during a session titled \u2018Education Accelerators: Sustainable Solutions\u2019 at the Knowledge Summit 2019 in the Dubai World Trade Centre. \u201cFor example, when money was donated for polio eradication (including a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17977,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17978,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17976\/revisions\/17978"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}