Abu-Ghazaleh Graduates 250 Employees in its Cambridge Program
03 Jul 2003AMMAN – The Minister of Education, Dr. Khaled Touqan, has emphasized the importance of the partnership between the governmental and private sectors, in order to advance institutions and employees of the public sector.
Also, Dr. Touqan said during a ceremony where private and governmental institutions were honored for the graduation of 250 of their employees with the Abu-Ghazaleh – Cambridge certificate, that the vision of His Majesty the King makes Jordan a model for partnership between the two sectors, a partnership that has come to fruition in reality.
Numerous employees from the Municipality of Amman, the Vocational Training Institution, the Ministry of Media, the Income Tax Department, the Directorate of General Security, the Bank of Jordan and Housing Bank were trained. Each of the employee graduates accumulated 75 accredited hours from the University of Cambridge in skills related to Microsoft Office usage and usage of the internet. They were taught by instructors from the Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Organization (TAGorg) which is accredited by the University of Cambridge.
Touqan elaborated that a new agreement has been reached with TAGorg to train 500 teachers on computer usage in the classroom.
On his part, the representative of the Minister of Communications and Information Technology and head of the Electronic Government taskforce Mr. Mahmoud Khasawneh, said that the training and education process is one of the five major axes in the electronic government program.
Khasawneh presented the steps taken in the area of training the public sector, as 1000 employees from 19 governmental organizations were qualified with the International Computer Driving License (ICDL). Also, 1488 employees were trained this year in the program mentioned, in addition to the Cambridge program. He pointed out that the pass rate among graduates was 90% and that 20 thousand employees will be trained by the end of 2005.
The Chairman of TAGorg and Vice-Chair of the UN ICT Task Force Mr. Talal Abu-Ghazaleh, said that the results of applying the Cambridge program in Jordan will be a successful model to be presented at the World Summit on the Information Society convening in Geneva next December.
He affirmed that Jordan is moving forward in the right direction to create a society and economy based on knowledge. He added that the private sector has a particular responsibility in the progress of nations, especially considering that this sector was ahead of governments worldwide, whereas the government was ahead of its counterpart in the private sector in Jordan. He stated that the Ministry of Education carries a great responsibility in the process of “knowledge transformation” of the local community.
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