education

(Office of Her Majesty – Press Department- Amman) – For their spirit of community, cooperation and volunteerism, Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah paid a visit to Rmeil Secondary School for girls in Al Jizah, today. The school, which won the Healthy School Gold Award during the Royal Health Awareness Society (RHAS) Ceremony earlier this month, is a Madrasati initiative phase one school.

Today marks the birthday of Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah. In the past two years, Her Majesty has directed most of her attention towards ensuring that quality education is available to all children in Jordan and across the world.

Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah launched Phase V of the Madrasati initiative today, which will cover a hundred of the most disadvantaged schools in the governorate of Irbid. During the launch ceremony, which took place at the Jordan University of Science and Technology (JUST), Her Majesty focused on the importance of education, its outcomes, and the caliber of skills it instills in its graduates.

(Office of Her Majesty – Press Department- Amman) – Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah chaired today the 16th meeting of the board of trustees of the Arab Open University in Amman.

At the Arab Open University campus, Her Majesty was received by HRH Prince Turki Bin Talal, Dr. Ali Fakhro, Deputy of the Chair and Dr. Mohammad Abu Qudais, President of the University in Jordan.

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Thank you. And thank you to the Korean Educational Development Institute, the Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology, the OECD, UNESCO, and World Bank for gathering us together today.

There’s a wealth of experience and expertise in this room. Years of research and field work… countless degrees and doctorates… all directed towards one dream: to give every child a quality education.

(Office of Her Majesty, Press Department-Amman) In recognition of the leading educational role played by the University of Jordan and its academics as the country’s first higher education institution, Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah met today with a group of female professors, lecturers and teachers from various faculties at the university.

Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah paid a visit to Al Hudaibieh and Abu Al Milh primary school in Amman today. This is Her Majesty’s second visit to the school and comes as a follow-up to the Queen’s first visit where she inspected the school’s facilities and greeted the students.

Her Majesty witnessed firsthand the improvements that took place to the school’s infrastructure and the educational programs that have been implemented in it.

The Queen toured the school and listened the students’ feedback on the progress they saw in their schools.
 

(Office of Her Majesty – Press Department- New York) – Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah met today with Cheryl Faye, Head of the UNGEI Secretariat and Maria Calivis, UNICEF outgoing Chief of Staff to Tony Lake and incoming Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa, to discuss the latest UNGEI programmes and progress in girls’ education worldwide.
 

(Office of Her Majesty, Press Department - Amman) People never stop learning – and not even teachers are exempt from that maxim. Thanks to a series of meetings between Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah, President Lee Bollinger of Columbia University, and President Susan Fuhrman of Columbia's Teachers College, as well as Her Majesty's visits to Columbia University, 12 Jordanian teachers will participate in a teachers' training program at Columbia University this summer where they will have the chance to learn some new techniques to bring back to their classrooms.

(Office of Her Majesty, Press Department - Amman) Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah, today, launched the Queen Rania Teacher’s Academy (QRTA), which seeks to build increased capacity for supporting instructional improvement in Jordan and the region through a partnership with Columbia University’s Teacher’s College. (TC)

During the inauguration, Her Majesty Queen Rania highlighted the importance of investing in high-quality professional development to foster teacher growth and offer students learning opportunities that prepare them to meet world-class standards.