Doha: Director of Teachers Affairs Department at the Ministry of Education and Higher Education, Ahmad Juma Al Jesaimani, has said that the Ministry focused greatly to recruit qualified teachers locally.
“Every year we need to recruit large number of qualified teachers from Qatar and abroad to meet the demand as annually a number of new schools are being opened and many classrooms added to the existing schools,” said Ahmad Juma Al Jesaimani while speaking in a Qatar TV programme recently.
He said that the local recruitment mainly focused on Qatar University which is considered the main source for providing teachers to the Ministry.
“We received big support from the College of Education of Qatar University in terms of providing specialised teachers to meet the annual demand,” said Ahmad Juma Al Jesaimani.
Speaking on Ministry’s policies about recruiting teachers locally, Al Jesaimani said that the Ministry of Education and Higher Education also recruits teachers in coordination with the Ministry of Administrative Development, Labour and Social Affairs (MADLSA). To recall, MADLSA is running e-Recruitment Portal under its initiative to provide suitable job to Qatari job-seekers.
“MADLSA provides us some candidates holding specialisations similar to the educational specialisations. We receive such specialised candidates, conduct interviews and put them in a year-long training programme. After receiving the necessary qualification, they are distributed in schools as per the need,” said Al Jesaimani.
Director of Teachers Affairs Department said that ‘Teach For Qatar’ has also emerged as one of the main sources for Ministry to provide qualified teachers of different specialities.
‘Teach For Qatar’ has been providing teachers to the Ministry for many years of different specialisations especially those related to mathematics, sciences, Arabic and English languages,” said Al Jesaimani.
He said there is a great coordination between Ministry and ‘Teach For Qatar’ which is providing specialised teachers for four subjects for specialised schools, for example, management, accountancy and business administration.
‘Teach For Qatar’ is a local non-governmental organisation (NGO) working as part of the solution to help solve some of the challenges Qatar’s students face, according to their website.
It reinvests exceptionally talented leaders — graduates and professionals — into the government school system through a two-year teaching and leadership development programme.
