Jenin Maan – The Minister of Education and Higher Education, Dr. Amjad Barham, today, Thursday, a tour of Jenin Governorate; With the aim of inspecting the progress of the educational process, and holding meetings with educational staff, events and institutions in Jenin.

Barham began his tour by meeting with the Governor of Jenin, Kamal Abu Al-Rub. The reality of the challenges and violations to which the educational process is exposed due to the occupation and its continuous incursions was recognized.

The Minister expressed his pride in Jenin Governorate, stressing that this tour embodies true communication with the educational field, support for the educational family and the people in light of the violations affecting the governorate and its institutions, especially its educational institutions, and ensuring every effort that would advance education and preserve the teacher’s status, prestige and stability despite the difficulties. Evoking the suffering of schools, universities, students, children and te
aching staff in the Gaza Strip, which is still subjected to fierce occupation aggression.

Barham conveyed to the governor and to the Jenin events the greetings of Prime Minister Dr. Muhammad Mustafa, stressing that the government is concerned with providing all emergency needs.

In turn, Abu Al-Rub stressed the necessity of providing all the elements and resources that guarantee the stability of education and adherence to it. As it constitutes a pillar for the establishment of the Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital, he pointed out the ongoing occupation’s violation of the governorate and its institutions, which affects students and educational staff.

The Minister was accompanied on his tour by the Assistant Undersecretary for Student Affairs, Sadiq Al-Khadour, and the Assistant Undersecretary for Educational Affairs, Dr. Ayoub Alyan, and a number of general directors, in the presence of representatives from the Fatah movement region, institutions, and official, civil, and community events.

The
tour included a visit to Al-Arqa Boys’ Secondary School and meeting with its staff and some of its students, and Al-Sila Al-Harithiya Boys’ Secondary School, and the opening of the ‘We Will See the Sun’ exhibition about the struggles of prisoners in the Jabriyat Mixed Basic School, and a tour of the female vocational workshops (beauty and graphic design unit) in a girls’ school. Al-Khansa secondary school.

The tour included a meeting with educational staff in Jenin, at Al-Khansaa School. The heads of departments were listened to, the reality of the needs was felt, and the reality of the challenges were learned in light of the current circumstances, in the presence of the Director General of Jenin Education, Salam Al-Taher.

Source: Maan News Agency