Response plans for educational changes

Al-Rai's Mohammed Rasai said that education might be the biggest sector that witnessed clear changes due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which made educational systems prepare new plans and policies to respond to these changes.

The response plans focus on three aspects: training, school curricula, and physical infrastructure, to ensure having a comprehensive response that enables the educational system to keep pace with the developments and benefit from additional advantages resulting from utilising ICT in the sector, said the writer.

The response of several educational systems was limited to the physical infrastructure through providing devices and equipment, while others provided training for the teaching staff, added the columnist.

All institutions of school and university education focus their efforts to keep pace with the developments through updating their curricula, said the writer, adding that it is not acceptable for these curricula not to keep pace with the new discovery and update years ago.

In light of the digitalization process that reached all aspects of life, it is a must to make huge changes in the university plans and school curricula at all stages, to ensure that students can be effective in running their lives, added the columnist.