His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, affirmed that the past academic year was a test for everyone, indicating His Highness the challenges faced by the educational body in the country, as a result of the preventive measures taken by the relevant health authorities to limit the spread Corona emerging virus (Covid-19).
Deputy Head of State: Congratulations to high school graduates in the United Arab Emirates. It was an exceptional year and a test for everyone. Thanks to our students, parents, and the Ministry of Education, which have proven their superiority and capabilities in overcoming challenges ... and we bless 100 outstanding people in our country. ” |
His Highness praised the Ministry of Education, stressing that it has proven superior and capable of overcoming challenges.
He also congratulated those who excelled in the twelfth grade in the elite and advanced tracks of applied technology secondary, and the advanced, professional and general tracks, and the advanced - private, and general - special tracks.
In a tweet on Twitter, His Highness said: “Congratulations to high school graduates in the UAE. It was an exceptional year and a test for everyone. Thanks to our students, parents, and the Ministry of Education, which have proven their superiority and capabilities in overcoming challenges ... and we bless 100 outstanding people in our country. ”
The winners were distributed among 30 students in the elite track with applied technology high school, 30 students in the advanced technical track with applied technology high schools, 15 students in the advanced track, 20 students in the professional track, 12 students in the general track, six students in the advanced track - private, and four Students in the public track - private.
For his part, the Minister of Education, Hussein Al-Hammadi stressed that «the academic year 2019-2020 was exceptional in form and content, due to the emergency health circumstance, and its direct effects on learning, which we successfully passed despite the challenges, as a result of pre-emptive steps, and preparing to build an educational system that constitutes learning The smartphone is an essential pillar, and the associated educational capabilities related to training and the provision of digital learning platforms, and their alignment with the curricula, in addition to possessing the basic technical tools for the continuation of distance learning, and above all, a responsible, informed and cooperative school community.
The high achievers confirmed that they made their choices based on the academic guidance they obtained at the secondary stage, which showed them the new specializations that are in line with the state's development plans and the functional needs of the local and global labor market, noting that the Corona pandemic contributed greatly to changing their thinking style to allocate the future And directed them to think in the specializations of medicine and artificial intelligence, especially that it played a big role in the state’s success in controlling the virus, and has become a role model in how to face this global crisis.
"I have had an interest since I was a young person in computers and genetics, and I made a great effort during the study, and I participated in local and regional competitions," said student Saleh Khaled Al Ghailani (Elite Track, Applied Technology High School Abu Dhabi), adding that he intended to study genetics (biotechnology) in Canada .
Minister of Education: - “The academic year 2019-2020 was exceptional in form and content due to the urgent sanitary condition.” |
The student at Abu Dhabi Applied Secondary School, Abdul Rahman Al Hosani, indicated that he chose aviation and aerospace engineering as a university specialization, and that he considered success as the beginning of an extended science career, through which he would seek to return part of the beautiful homeland.
The student of the Elite Path, Abu Dhabi High School, Muhammad Alwi Al-Braiki, expressed his happiness that he was one of the first, indicating that he expected to face difficulties in the experience of distance learning, but the support and support from the Ministry and members of the educational field helped students to adapt quickly.
Alia Yaqoub Ali Al-Khaqaq Al-Balushi, one of the first high schools of applied technology in Abu Dhabi, stressed that the support of parents was the main reason behind achieving excellence, praising the experience of performing exams remotely.
She explained that her dream is a biomedical engineering major, which she hopes to study at Khalifa University of Science and Technology.
"The absence of my mother during the Corona pandemic, due to the fact that she works as a nurse in a government hospital, pushed me to offer part of this state's debt to me, as I did," said Mahara Muhammad Ali Al-Sharari Al-Dhanhani, from Dibba Al-Fujairah Secondary School for Girls.
The student, Hamdan Ali Al-Hadrami, said: "Excellence is the result of effort and work throughout 12 years of study, and not the end-year effort in high school only." He stressed that "the Corona pandemic was not affecting our academic achievement, because we are in a country whose dictionary is not impossible."
He pointed out that he aims to study mechanical engineering, specializing in clean energy at the American University of Sharjah.
"The Corona pandemic has contributed greatly to changing the way students think about choosing a future major." “The technical tools for continuing distance learning and the responsible school community contributed to passing the (pandemic).” - “The outstanding people made their choices for university study based on academic guidance at the secondary level.” |
As for the student Abdul Rahman Osama Hakim, he said: “I am proud to be one of the few students in the world who have completed their academic year, despite the interruption of studies in most countries of the world due to the pandemic (Covid-19), thanks to the UAE and the efforts of the Ministry of Education.” , Noting that he intends to study aviation engineering.
The student, Hind Abdul Karim Al-Janahi, said that the period of "Corona" did not affect her studies, but that some of the subjects needed to be studied directly with teachers, including physics.
She noted that she wanted to study "design", influenced by her father, who works as an engineer, noting that he was her first supporter.
Student Rashid Musa Abdullah Muhammad Al Darmaki, Fujairah High School of Applied Technology, Path of the Professional Year, stressed that the result is a realistic outcome of the efforts of our country and then the parents, and their constant motivation, and providing them with all the means of success.
The family of the student, Muhammad Abdullah Muhammad Al-Rifai Al-Dahmani, from the Applied Technology High School - Fujairah, received the news of his excellence in the elite path at the state level with pride. Al-Dahmani said that the conditions of distance education did not waste his effort, pointing out that the management of his school and his teachers had a great advantage by following it permanently.
Alia Saif Ali Khalfan Al Nuaimi, from the Mirbah Secondary School for Girls, said: “I made sure that my name was registered in the list of the first in the country, after my sisters, working in the first line of defense, inspired me,” noting that she had two sisters who preceded her, who were among the first in the state.
The student, Mohamed Attia Abu Awad, from the Ras Al Khaimah Secondary Education School for Boys, confirmed an advanced path, that memorizing the Qur’an when he was young helped him memorize his lessons and excel in high school.
Khalid Ahmed Al Mansoori, a student of Applied Technology High School in Ras Al Khaimah, Boys elite path, indicated that he excelled as a result of his family standing by him during the exams, and not leaving the house due to the Corona crisis.
The student, Hassan Saeed Al-Shehhi, from the Shaam Massar Public School, stated that he excelled as a result of his continuous studies, and that he did not leave the house. He added that he had not experienced any difficulties in dealing with the distance learning system, and he was studying the most difficult subjects for long hours, in order to understand them.
He explained that he is seeking to enter the police college, to join the first line of defense.
Student Hamad Adel Al-Shehhi, from the Applied Technology High School in Ras Al-Khaimah, said that he had developed a plan to combat the virus by quarantining himself at home, and intensifying study, sports and healthy meals.
Iman Abdullah Al-Naimi, a student in Al-Sabahiya School, Cycle Two and Secondary Education, indicated that her excellence in the general track was due to her studies more than six hours per day, and her interest in distance learning.
9 nationalities
The nationalities of the first students were divided between nine nationalities, which included 87 students from the Emirates, 11 students from Egypt, seven students from Syria, four students from Jordan, two students from Iraq, two students from Palestine, two students from the Comoros Islands, and students from both the Sultanate of Oman and Yemen.
The students occupied 21 seats in the list of the first elite track, compared to nine seats for female students, and the advanced track list by 11 seats for students and four seats for female students, and the general professional track 11 for students and nine students, while they shared the positions in the lists of early technical advanced track by 15 seats each, and the track The applicant (special education) has three seats each.
Female students excelled in the general track list by 11 seats, compared to one seat for students, while the general track list (special education) was empty of students, and the four students occupied the special seats in the list.
Medical, epidemiological, engineering, artificial intelligence, space science and information security, programming, robotics, nuclear physics, and earth sciences topped the undergraduate students' majors.