Ministry of Education, Bahrain

The Ministry of Education (MOE) seeks to reach a qualitative development for an educational system characterized by high degree of quality to achieve excellence, proficiency and creativity, emanating from our Islamic region’s lofty principles and values. Bahrain believes in a wider human interaction with world civilization and its belonging to the Arab nation as stated in the kingdom’s constitution. This aims to achieve the requirements of sustainable development that conforms with international standards.

We aim to provide educational opportunities for every citizen to enhance his readiness, abilities and skills by drawing up educational plans. Their implementation and evaluation in a bit to meet the requirements of comprehensive quality to upgrade the quality of education and its effectiveness in accordance with international standards as stated in education law, higher education law and private education law in the kingdom of Bahrain.

The Ministry of Education (MoE) seeks to develop a qualitative education system to reach a high degree of excellence and creativity. This vision emanates from the Islamic Religion lofty principles and values and the Kingdom of Bahrain's interaction with the human civilization and its Arab belonging to satisfy the requirements of continues development that conforms with the international standards, as stated in the Kingdom's constitution.

The MoE provides educational opportunities for every citizen to develop his/her mental, physical and emotional potentials and skills through drawing up development plans, their implementation and evaluation to achieve the requirements of quality to enhance the quality and effectiveness of education in line with the international standards as stated in the Education Law, Higher Education Law and Private Education Institutions Law in the Kingdom of Bahrain.

The Ministry of Education efforts focus on providing good educational services to all students, developing the educational system in form and content, and that it should cover all categories of learners. The MoE also seeks to upgrade and review this system continuously by conducting internal and external evaluation, to keep pace with the changes our society witnesses and to activate its role in building the Bahraini people's future abilities. This is currently accompanied by the expansion in implementing the initiatives of the National Project to Develop Education and Training to cater our developmental needs.

E-learning, which is being used on a large scale in our schools, contributes effectively today to improving schools performance and consolidate communication between the parties involved in the teaching-learning process, mainly in the implementation of schools Improvement Project (SIP) that currently covers 60 schools and will later be generalized in all schools. The major challenge is represented today in the activation of the role of the schools of future system to further improve performance and enhance the educational process as per the priorities of the programme that is being carried out by the Moe in cooperation with the Economic Development Board (EDB), experts and International Consultancies.

As development is directed towards the student's cultural, intellectual and spiritual structure, it was important to pay attention to the development of curricula and boosting the values of education for citizenship with its two theoretical and applied dimensions within the framework of the Kingdom of Bahrain national, Arab and religious identity and its belonging to the new global trend, based on tolerance and communication between all human beings in order to foster aspects of cooperation and solidarity with all people of the world.

Curricula had to assimilate the concepts and values of the new reform project led by HM King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa and his wise government. Curricula also had to assimilate the fast-growing scientific, technological and information changes. In this regard, the MoE has made big strides in the field of an extensive of ICT, laying the foundation of sciences and technology and introducing them in the educational process in a bid to upgrade the MoE and schools performance, to develop aspects of communication and distance-learning, to help both teachers and learners to avail of these potentials, and other various knowledge resources to translate the most important learning principles in the 21st century namely: learning to be, learning to know, learning to work and learning to live with others.

As part of the Ministry's efforts to consolidate communication to achieve those goals, to benefit from the internet and to activate this educational and cognitive communication, the MoE has provided schools with computers and linked them with the network and allowed them to set up their own sites. To support this trend, the ministry has carried out a large scale project to train thousands of teachers, administrators and specialists on the use of ICT effectively to turn practice into reality under full-fledged educational supervisors.

Undoubtedly, the main goal of the Ministry's internet page is to provide the best means of communication and to open up a window for getting access to various knowledge resources. It also provides an opportunity to exchange knowledge and expertise between schools, teachers, learners and parents. This will surely lead to playing a key role in cognitive and informative mobility which will pave the way for creating a knowledge-based society which is considered the basis for a knowledge-based economy.