Seminar in Beqaa on orientation and grants application for students

The Beqaa Youth for Development and Free Education organized in Park Hotel, Shtura, a seminar named “the role of educational institutions and societies in helping and guiding students”. In his speech, the General Director of Higher Education in Lebanon who is also member in the Academic Committee in the association, Dr. Ahmad Al Jammal, presented the recently approved strategy and law regulating higher education and the project law for the setting up of the Lebanese Quality Assurance Agency. He praised the achievements made so far to promote the culture of standards, namely, the training of quality experts in universities. Al Jammal noted there are presently some 8 higher education institutions internationally accredited or about to receive accreditation. Director of the School of Health at the Lebanese University- Area 4 and member of Beqaa Youth Academic Committee, Dr. Raed Izzidine, highlighted the significance of vocational orientation, mainly in the identification of student’s potentials, capacities and predispositions through the usage of the following tools: psychological, social and applied assessment exams; introducing the student to the colleges and vocational institutes; to their prerequisites and registration criteria, exams procedures, and, familiarization and exposure of high school students to various professions though visits to universities. For his part, AMIDEAST Beqaa advisor, and Beqaa Youth Vice President, Dr. Khalil Smeidi, highlighted the improvements made in teaching foreign languages in the Beqaa through upgrading skills, adoption of new techniques of active learning. Head Principal of Kamed Loz public high school and Coordinator of the academic committee of the association, Siham Al Ghandour, outlined the activities of the association and the students’ grants procedure, adding that the academic committee of the Association will start receiving grant applicants as of the month of next August, either directly or online through its website:  http://bekaayouth.org. (An Nahar, 2 March 2015)