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(Office of Her Majesty – Press Department – Amman) - While usually reserved for lighthearted fun and entertainment, the hallways of the Children’s Museum of Jordan saw a different kind of gathering, Monday, as child-health and education experts and policy makers came together to discuss the current trends in Jordan. 

Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah launched the latest Situation Analysis for Children in Jordan, there, bringing some welcomed news about the Kingdom’s progress. 

(Office of Her Majesty, Press Department- New York) Global development challenges such as inequity in education, youth unemployment and women’s empowerment were at the core of Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah’s remarks during one of the sessions of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) meeting, on Thursday.

Participating in a panel discussion, deliberating on what it takes to meet the 2015 Education for All deadline, Queen Rania and other panelists put forth a number of solutions aimed at encouraging countries, donors and partners to fulfill their aid pledges.

(Office of Her Majesty, Press Department, New York) With the fundamental right to education denied to 75 million children worldwide, Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah, on Monday, urged girls from the Young Women’s Leadership School of East Harlem in New York to sign up their names in support of the 1GOAL: Education for All initiative launched in partnership with FIFA in the run up to the 2010 World Cup.

(Jordan Times - Amman) Her Majesty Queen Rania on Wednesday launched the second stage of the Jordan Education Initiative (JEI) and its strategic plans for the next three years.

At a meeting yesterday, attended by JEI board members and principal partners, the Queen praised the JEI’s continued ability to draw more partners from various areas of the world five years after its launch, saying this attests to the initiative’s success.

(Office of Her Majesty, Press Department - Amman) Two steadfast advocates for promoting educational opportunities, Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah and His Royal Highness Prince Talal Ben Abdul Aziz, joined forces to lay the cornerstone for the Arab Open University's campus in Jordan.

(Office of Her Majesty, Press Department - Amman) With 1.4 million students in the Kingdom’s schools taking half an hour off their schedule to mark Human Rights Day, Her Majesty Queen Rania Al-Abdullah reaffirmed her commitment to human rights underlining the significance of cherishing the values of equality, respect for human rights and cooperation in society.

(The Jordan Times, By Sahar Alul - Amman) Although the digital divide has been addressed in terms of access to Information Communications Technology (ICT) equipment, interested parties gathered to discuss bridging the ICT gender gap.

“We can use this time of change to change more than our access to computers, we can use it to help change ideas, attitudes and even dreams,” said Minister of Education Khalid Touqan in his keynote address at the “`E'-quality in the IT sector” conference.

(Office of Her Majesty, Press Department- Dead Sea) - Her Majesty Queen Rania Al-Abdullah hosted, on Monday morning, the second joint annual meeting of the World Links Arab Region (WLAR) Advisory Council and Board of Directors at the Dead Sea, Jordan where they discussed the regional progress of World Links.

(Jordan Times, Mohammad Ghazal - Amman) Her Majesty Queen Rania joined public high school students from around the Kingdom in Amman on Sunday in a discussion during which they briefed her on their criteria for a distinguished teacher. The meeting took place during the launch of the logo for the Queen Rania Excellence Award for Teaching, which is dedicated to distinguished teachers this year.  During the discussion with the students, who took part in workshops to determine the characteristics of a distinguished teacher, the Queen underlined the importance of a teacher's role in developing st

(Office of Her Majesty, Press Department - Athens) Her Majesty Queen Rania Al-Abdullah, on Wednesday, inaugurated a scholarship program for Jordanian students at the Athens Information Technology (AIT) University, during a two-day working trip to the Greek capital with His Majesty King Abdullah.  A Greek initiative aimed at fostering greater co-operation between Jordanian and Greek educational institutions, the program, due to begin in spring 2006, comprises fourteen graduate scholarships, known as the Queen Rania Al-Abdullah Scholarships, which will be set up exclusively for Jordanian stud