Student career orientation exhibition in UNESCO

The Islamic Center Association for Guidance and Higher Education inaugurated last Thursday its ninth Orientation fair at UNESCO Palace in the presence of industry minister, Dr. Hussein Hajj Hassan. Under the theme, ‘Your specialization  is not a matter of luck’, the exhibition is expected to last until today, with the participation of about 27 universities. Representatives of higher education institutions carried out pilot activities in front of the visiting students, including broadcasting news in front of a live camera. What initiated this event, the chair of the Association, Ali Zalazali, told Al Safir, is that students lack the right information on the requirements of the labor market, coupled with the absence of educational guidance in schools, and sometimes in universities and colleges. He pointed out that the Islamic Center seeks to help students find proper disciplines that best suit their preferences and personalities through a simple scientific experiment  to this end. About the most wanted disciplines, Zalazali mentioned the education sector, which he said, is always in need of specialists, in addition to future jobs in the promising oil and gas industry. Zalzali also disclosed that introducing ‘educational guidance’ into schools has been proposed before the state-run Educational Center for Research and Development (ECRD), but while conceding its significance, the response of ECRD was that this was not possible for the time being. (As Safir, November 12, 2016)