Under the generous patronage of His Highness Shiekh Mansour bin Zayed
Khalifa Award for Education launches its third international conference titled: “Education as a Pathway from Empowerment to the Future”
Secretary-General of the Khalifa Award: Exploring visions and horizons that keep pace with the times in developing the education system
Abu Dhabi: Sunday, April 21, 2024
Under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Vice President of the UAE, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of the Presidential Court, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Khalifa Award for Education, the Award is organizing its third international conference entitled “Education as a Pathway from Empowerment to the Future,” in the period from May 14 to 15, 2024. Conference sessions at the Emirates Palace Hotel in Abu Dhabi. The conference aims to review the most important leading global experiences in the field of early education at the global level, explore visions and horizons that keep pace with the future of technological acceleration in education, and exchange global experiences and ideas to enhance the role of the educational environment, formulate innovative educational policies, and contribute to the development of The quality of education outcomes and the role of institutions and educational bodies, as well as anticipating the future of jobs and the labor market to establish appropriate educational structures and systems, and participating with creative ideas to develop integrated strategies and policies for developing education.
Amal Al-Afifi, Secretary-General of the Khalifa Award for Education, emphasized the significance of this conference, in magnifying the Award’s role in spreading excellence locally, regionally, and internationally. This conference enjoys the generous patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the UAE. The conference also keeps pace with the renaissance, excellence and leadership witnessed by the education sector in the country in all its stages.
She explained that the conference is attended by experts and specialists in the education sector and early education from various parts of the world, and the conference agenda includes a number of scientific topics, working papers, research, studies and applied workshops, as the agenda for the first day of the conference includes a main session entitled “Education: Results and Achievements – Empowerment Phase.” As well as two sessions on Early Childhood education: Needs and Aspirations, Digital Education: Preparing for a Sustainable Future.
The conference program on the second and final day also includes a main session entitled “Education Policies, Structures and Systems: Policies and the Future of Education,” as well as 3 sessions in which the first theme revolves around the Future of Education: Integrating the Role of Educational Institutions and Society, General, University, and postgraduate Education: Future Achievements and Developments, Artificial Intelligence and best Practices in Education.
Al-Afifi pointed out that the conference focuses during its activities on the practical aspects that give participants, members of administrative and teaching bodies and relevant community bodies, the skills necessary to advance the educational process, and enable parents to keep pace with the rapid development this vital sector is witnessing, especially in light of the use of advanced technology and artificial intelligence. In the educational process, hence the conference’s allocation of 4 applied workshops accompanying the activities. The first day includes a workshop entitled “The role of the family in enabling the child to make decisions and bear responsibility,” and a workshop entitled “The role of educational awards in improving the quality of education.” The conference also includes on its second day, a workshop entitled “Adaptive Learning: Designing instruction for gifted learners and students with learning challenges.” And the final applied workshop is entitled “Mastering digital skills in social media to improve the quality of education.”
Al-Afifi stressed how this conference represents a worldwide platform for spreading the culture of excellence as the conference allocates a pavilion for the participation of specialized educational and community awards by displaying their message, objectives, and the fields presented in each of them, allowing all participants and attendees to view and interact with their entities.
Al-Afifi invited those working in the field to participate in these practical sessions and workshops in a way that enhances the conference’s achievement of its mission and goals in spreading excellence in the educational field, exchanging opinions and experiences on the best global practices in education and early education, and anticipating the future of these educational sectors locally, regionally and internationally.