‘Sport helps students develop discipline, character’

Doha: Minister of Education and Higher Education H E Buthaina bint Ali Al Jabr Al Nuaimi said that all kinds of sports have many benefits for every human, including physical, psychological, and mental health.

In a press statement on the occasion of NSD, the Minister noted that sport plays a vital role in developing students’ characteristics and skills, such as perseverance, flexibility, and discipline, calling on student to make sport an integral part of their daily lives for its positive impact on their health, life, and social skills in the short and long term.

The Ministry of Education and Higher Education organised several sports activities at the Old Doha Port Park, with the participation of the Minister, officials of the Ministry, schools, students and their parents, the elderly, and persons with disabilities, from different ages and groups of Qatari society.

Minister of Education and Higher Education honoured the winners of various sports competitions and activities from students and schools of all educational levels, which were organized by the ministry for the NSD.

Undersecretary of the Ministry of Education and Higher Education Dr. Ibrahim bin Saleh Al Nuaimi stressed the NSD importance in the life of society, calling for making sports activities of all kinds daily practices for their physical, mental, health, and psychological benefits, especially for student children.

In remarks to reporters on the occasion of the Ministry’s participation in the NSD activities, Al Nuaimi said that the Ministry attaches great importance to sports activities as an important part of a student’s life, adding that the education sector provides the students with science, information, and knowledge and also must provide them with sports activities because physical activity is vital for a healthy life.