Riyadh– The Minister of Education, Dr. Hamad bin Mohammad Al Al-Sheikh, will participate tomorrow, in the Transforming Education Summit, which will be held in New York City, USA, and will last from16 to 19 September.
The summit aims to establish a greater political commitment to education as a public good, and to develop a new vision for education in the future, as the summit will include providing innovative solutions to transform education and those solutions into a tangible reality aimed at recovering from the educational gap resulting from the effects of the Corona virus pandemic, and supporting the plans of countries in achieving the sustainable development goals and education-related targets in the 2030 Agenda.
The agenda of the summit includes the Mobilization Day, a day led and organized by a group of young people from different countries of the world, in partnership with a number of stakeholders from international organizations and civil society institutions, and aims to communicate the vision of young people on transforming education to decision and policy makers, and announcing the Youth Statement for the Summit. The summit agenda also includes the activities of the Solutions Day, during which seminars and lectures are held that showcase solutions to transforming education to achieve the sustainable development goals and objectives related to the education sector, with the aim of reaching international partnerships and alliances in this framework.
The work of the Transforming Education Summit concludes on Leaders Day, which focuses on the presentation by the leaders of member states of statements of their countries’ national commitments and holding a number of high-level sessions on the topics of the Summit.
Source: Saudi Press Agency