His Excellency Sheikh Hamdan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, attended a ceremony honoring the top high school students in the State for the current academic year 2015/2014. The ceremony was held at the initiative of His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the State, and was organized by Abu Dhabi Education Council, in cooperation with the Ministry of Presidential Affairs and the Ministry of Education, at the Emirates Palace Hotel, on Tuesday evening, July 14th, 2015.
This honoring included citizen and resident students in public schools and institutes of applied technology, and citizen students with special needs, where the number of honorees reached 150 male and female students at the State’s level. After the ceremony, which was attended by Their Excellencies and Ministers, His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Presidential Affairs, Vice Chairman of Abu Dhabi Education Council, during Iftar banquet, met the top students and their parents, and he talked with them about their future plans and achievements during the school year, which culminated in their excellence. His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan praised the support of His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the State, for the educational process, and his keenness to make education a top priority for the cultural development in the State, and provision of environment that stimulates excellence and fair and equal competition among students in order to reach quality education commensurate with the UAE Vision 2021 and Abu Dhabi in 2030, and the education strategy pursued by the UAE to make its educational system one of the best five developed educational systems in the world. His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan emphasized that education is one of the most important priorities of the State, and will continue to be the focus of our attention in order to build a bright future for our country and children, stressing that the UAE offers all its capabilities to be an incubator for progressive education, and provides it with the support needed to update its content, develop its curricula, and take care of those in charge of it, thus moving towards leadership in the fields of education, higher education, scientific research, and innovation.
It also adopts modern initiatives that instill the love of innovation and creativity in our students. His Highness called on those in charge of the sector to be always keen to develop their abilities and the educational services they provide to the students, promote the values in them, and provide them with useful science and skills required in the future to be active members of society, serving their country in all fields. His Highness congratulated the students for their excellence, stressing that this excellence, which was the gist of effort and perseverance, is a source of pride, and he thanked all workers in the field of education; officials, teachers and administrators, who have had an active role in the excellence of these students who will be the basic building block in the construction and development of the nation.