Rio de Janeiro – The Brazilian experience in several professional teaching programmes should serve as an example for projects in the sector to be implemented in Oman. The minister of education of the Arab country, Madiha Ahmed Al-Shaibani, who is visiting Rio de Janeiro and Brasília this week, said on Monday (25) to ANBA that Brazil has “valuable experience” in professional teaching and will “certainly” serve as an example to her country.
Shaibani should visit a unit of the National Service of Industrial Education (Senai), in Brasília, and meetings with professionals in the Centre for School and Company Integration (Ciee) and a technical visit of part of the team to the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq).
On Monday, four technicians of the delegation from Oman visited the Foundation for Support to Technical Schools in the State of Rio de Janeiro (Faetec). “One of the objectives of our trip to Brazil is to visit teaching institutions to learn [with Brazil] and implement there [in Oman]. Brazil, for example, has experience in training good educators and inserting them in the labour market and following their work. We wish to learn much with this experience,” said the minister.
Shaibani’s visit to Brazil is not limited to education. She said to ANBA that she hopes that after her trip to the country, diplomatic relations between Brazil and Oman may become closer. On Tuesday, the minister will meet with vice president Michel Temer, with whom she had a brief meeting on Sunday (24), during the delivery of Sultan Qaboos Award for Environmental Preservation, granted in partnership with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco). The award was delivered during the ceremony for opening of the 6th World Science Forum, at the Municipal Theatre in Rio de Janeiro.
Still in Brasília, she will participate, on Wednesday (27) in celebrations of the National Day of Oman. On said date, there will be typical music presentations, exhibition of ancient documents and a photograph exhibition: “Oman: Nature, Civilisation and Ascent”.
Before, on Monday, the images of the exhibition were shown in a cocktail and lunch offered by the minister at Copacabana Palace, in Rio, for approximately 250 people. At the event, Shaibani returned to honouring the institutions contemplated on Sunday with the Sultan Qaboos Environmental Preservation Award: an institution for protection of endangered ecosystems and animals in South Arica and another for preservation of forests in Poland.
*Translated by Mark Ament
