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Minister of Education and Higher Education and Secretary General of the Supreme Education Council (SEC) HE Saad bin Ibrahim Al Mahmoud and Qatar Central Bank (QCB) Governor HE Sheikh Abdullah bin Saud Al Thani today signed an operating agreement to establish an Independent School of Commerce. The School will provide business and financial sector training as part of an educational curriculum that is dedicated to grooming candidates to take on purposeful roles in the country’s financial sector.

His Excellency Mr. Saad Bin Ibrahim Al Mahmoud, Minister of Education and Higher Education and Secretary-General of the Supreme Council of Education has appointed Ms. Haya Jehan Al Kuwari, as director of the Independent Schools Office at the Education Institute.

The Supreme Education Council (SEC) has withdrawn the licenses of four independent school operators for failure to achieve satisfactory student performance results as per the agreement signed between both parties.

The Education Institute of the Supreme Education Council announced that all Cohort VII schools would utilize the electronic registration facilities of nearby schools to register students as they are yet to be equipped with the technology.

The Education Institute Assistant Director, Khalid Al-Harqan has issued a circular to all independent schools' operators specifying the admissions policy in the different key stage levels in the independent schools. This move is aligned to the Supreme Education Council’s efforts to regulate the admissions and registration in schools.

The Supreme Education Council announced the names of operators for the Cohort VII independent schools, thus concluding the final stage in the education development process - Education for A New Era - initiated by the State of Qatar’s in 2002. There are currently 102 schools operating independently. This number will reach 167 with the final addition of 65 schools from cohort VII.

The Supreme Education Council’s Shared Services Directorate held on Wednesday, April 14, 2010 a meeting with leaders of independent schools at Al Sharq Hotel to discuss matters related to staffing in schools. Attending the meeting was Mr. Tariq Al-Abdulla, Director of Shared Services, Mr. Eissa El Hor, the Human Resources Manager and Mr. Jassim Al Muftah, the head of recruitment, in addition to independent schools' operators.

The Gulf Cooperation Council committee for certificates equivalency held its 13th periodical meeting on March 23, 2010 at Al Sharq Resort where issues related to equivalence of such certificates as diplomas; bachelors and doctorate degrees were discussed.

A permanent committee set up to prepare a detailed plan to provide schools with healthy and cost effective food following reports in the various media on the new cafeteria system in schools has released a study on its findings.

Recently, the supreme education council announced the new universities list according to majors, for both post graduate study and higher study(Master and Doctorate) where the new list contained 675 university and college from all over the world.search an universities