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LABOR MINISTER PATRONIZES ‘JOB DESCRIPTION WORKSHOP’ BY THE EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY SYNDICATE

Caretaker Minister of Labor, Mustafa Bayram, patronized a workshop describing the profession of education technology “in a promising national precedent,” as he indicated in his speech during the honoring and distributing ceremony of certificates of participation to the educational and technological experts who took part in the study of the descriptions.

The workshop included an assessment of matters related to Education technology under thirty classifications to be a reference for all professional unions, in particular for human resources managers, management of educational and technological institutions, educational publishing houses, educational curricula preparation centers, employment contracts, job titles, employment requests, identification of required competencies, and training titles for soft skills and digital skills.

In his speech, Bayram praised “the work of unions, especially what the Education Technology Syndicate offers in terms of developing the professional work of unions, and innovation in union and professional work in terms of opening new and necessary job opportunities in the reality of the knowledge economy.”

“It is an honor for me to be present among a group of distinguished educators…This meeting shows the true image of Lebanon, the Lebanon of the elites, not the Lebanon of looting in different regions and appeasement,” he said, stressing that “the meeting confirms that we can bring about change and advancement in work, and that this work is unprecedented and is a state of smart innovation to keep pace with the times, as today it gives us an economy of attention, opening up opportunities and motivating young people not to be drawn into despair.”

Bayram continued to indicate that “what the Syndicate is doing today is a kind of partial analysis that allows young people to know the emerging professions, the required skills, and the new specialties needed through which we will answer the questions of the rising youth…and this diversity in the workshop embodied in the diversity of experts present from various educational and technological institutions and from all sects and regions is nothing but an embodiment of openness, drawing the true image of Lebanon, and creating an area for dialogue and innovation.”

The Labor Minister disclosed that he insisted on being present at the workshop “to be a witness to an educational renaissance and change.”

Following his speech, Minister Bayram congratulated the participants and handed them their certificates of participation, alongside the heads of partaking institutions and their representatives from the Lebanese University, the Ministry of Education and Higher Education, the Educational Center for Research and Development, the Directorate of Higher Education and Vocational Education, official authorities, educational institutions, parliamentary committees, informatics experts, experts in educational technology institutions, research centers and vocational guidance studies.

Bayram praised the level of professionalism and intellect of the participants in a very important national precedent in the country, annnouncing his adoption of innovative initiatives in form and content in preserving the rights of workers, citizens and state institutions.

Source: National News Agency – Lebanon

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