06 Mar 2013
The Aspire for education conference successfully started the kick off of its activities yesterday morning. The event Panel discussions and workshops had the theme of career consulting under the slogan “Together for a Better Career Decision”.
The opening keynote was presented by Mr. Ivan Bravo the Director General of Aspire Academy whom has welcomed the guests and speakers and highlighted the importance of dialogue, exchange of expertise, and sharing experience between all educator to enrich the learning process of students.
Mr. Ivan Bravo has also emphasized the role that Aspire Academy takes in the region as a sport education establishment which undertakes the mission of developing well educated sports champions. Mr. Ivan Bravo thanked the education department of Aspire Academy for all the accomplishment made to raise the education profile of all Aspire Academy students. Having such conference held in Aspire Academy would indeed enhance all the effort made by the education department to give the right career consultation to all the students in such critical time of students’ lives.
He has thanked the education department for taking the lead in such project wishing all the success for the conference and promising the second version of it in two years from now.
The first day program was rich with many discussion panels and workshops which were started by Dr. Richard Knowdell the Executive Director at Career Development Network in USA discussion the Decision making process, why, what, and how. He has tried to find an answer for parents’ questions of choosing the right education path for their sons and daughters.
Dr. Khalid Al Khanji the vice president of student affairs in Qatar Foundation has discussed the relation between career and personal counseling. Followed by Mrs. Ahlam Al Emadi the career counselor in SEC whom has clarified the scholarships’ application and updates status in Qatar.
The conference attempts to answer the questions raised by all the concerned parties in career/academic counseling inside and outside the State of Qatar, including students, parents, academics and educationalists from different related schools, universities and organizations.
The importance of this conference is driven from the Qatar National Vision 2030. Based on “Qatar’s National Vision” which aims to transform Qatar into an advanced country by 2030, capable of sustaining its own development and providing for a high standard of living for all of its people for generations to come; and starting from the belief of our role to deal with the main challenges of the vision, which are reflected in the needs of this generation and the needs of the coming generations; and with reference to the development horizons among which is the following pillar:
Human development: Development of all Qatari people to enable them to sustain a prosperous society. Hence, comes the importance of Aspire For Education.