Education is an essential tool for everyone to enhance knowledge and achieve success in life. Qatar’s education sector is growing and this was evident when Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani inaugurated the Qatar School of Science and Technology for Boys.
The school adopts an educational approach based on the teaching of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) in an integrated manner. The Prime Minister and Interior Minister affirmed that Qatar, under the leadership of the Amir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, attaches importance to the educational system, praising the idea of establishing the school by providing students with innovative and stimulating educational experiences in the fields of science and technology, especially in research, development and problem solving, preparing them to contribute effectively to the knowledge-based economy, achieving Qatar National Vision 2030 and providing the country with qualified educational outputs capable of continuing university studies or engage in the labor market.
Minister of Education and Higher Education H E Dr. Mohammed bin Abdul Wahid Al Hammadi highlighted the importance of the school and said there is no doubt that the Ministry’s quest for a knowledge-based economy requires building quality educational institutions, building students’ minds, developing their innovations, adopting their ideas and polishing them to the highest levels of quality and production. The specialized secondary school that includes grades from 9 to 12 carries the aspirations of outstanding Qatari students seeking scientific excellence and who are serious in achieving their academic ambitions.
The Minister said the school is different than other schools as it targets talented Qatari students in the field of science who show a passion for technology, engineering and mathematics. The school provides a unique educational experience for Qatari students through its laboratories which contributes to constructing a strong scientific and research base in the secondary stage, which continues during university, comprehensively supporting distinguished students which will create a new Qatari generation that is able to globally compete with their research and projects. This is the right investment to build future generations armed with the skills of the 21st century, especially in the fields of science on which the economies of developed countries in our modern world rely on.
The school aims to build a generation of scientists, researchers and inventors, to provide the Qatari labor market with rare scientific disciplines and to provide the country with educational outputs that possess the skills for a knowledge-based economy, thus benefiting the objectives of the Qatar National Vision. Qatar has placed science, technology and innovation at the top of its national priorities and has included them in its strategic plans and national vision goals. Qatar, no doubt, is taking care of its talented youth and knows that they are valuable treasures and that their capabilities must be developed.
