AMMAN –
On Saturday, the
Higher Education Forum 2024 tackled four key topics with the
University of Jordan: governance, funding, university admission policies, and
scientific research, Jordan News Agency, Petra reported.
اضافة اعلان
Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research Azmi Muhafzah said the sector is a top interest of His
Majesty due to its role in accelerating development, modernizing the state, and
developing qualified human resources, which is a real asset of the country.
He announced that the Ministries
of Education and Higher Education and Scientific Research are about to merge
into one ministry, the Ministry of Education and
Human Resources, under the
public sector modernization scheme, which requires new legislation to replace
current education, higher education, and scientific research and
Jordanian universities laws.
The minister pointed out
that the governance of universities is "a real challenge" in higher
education reform due to the multiple councils, starting with the Academic
Department and ending up with the
Board of Deans, which were not spared from
critique despite comprising competent senior members.
He said the Education
Council adopted a new secondary education plan splitting students after ninth
grade into two streams, academic and vocational, and that the secondary stream
for both tracks will be three years (10th, 11th, and 12th grades), without
affecting compulsory education till 10th grade.
Under the new system, he
added,
tawjihi (General Secondary Education Certificate Examination) will be
taken over two years as proposed by an ad hoc committee that was formed by the
Education Council.
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