EVERYTHING IS EVOLVING, EXCEPT SCHOOLING SYSTEM

Dubai’s schooling system is “how it was hundreds of years ago” and a new project that will allow part-time schooling will help revolutionise learning, a KHDA official has said.

‘Rahhal’ has been launched to ensure that a new approach is used in Dubai’s education sector.

“If you look at the schooling system, it’s a system that is not evolving as fast as everything around it. You will notice that everything is evolving, especially the technology. But our schooling system is exactly how it has been a few hundred years ago. It didn’t change that much,” Hind Al Mualla, chief of Creativity, Happiness and Innovation at the KHDA, said.

“If you want to improve the different aspects of learning using the existing system, then it won’t be very limiting and it won’t take us 10 years ahead of time. So, we need to think a completely different approach. If you follow the same approach, you will get the same results and we don’t want the same results, we want something different and this is why Rahhal emerged into being. “

The project is part of Dubai Future Foundation’s 10X initiative, where government entities are asked to reshape their departments to get 10 years ahead of time.

“10X is a project that enables us, a government body, to get ahead 10 of years of time through looking into our own regulations and look for ways to hack them. That’s one of the ways for 10X to work, another way is to think of your stakeholders. It’s meant to make you think why you exist as a government body,” Al Mualla said.

Dubai adopted 26 projects presented by 24 government departments as part of the 10X initiatives. The shortlisted projects were evaluated by a panel of experts out of a total of more than 160 ideas submitted by 36 parties in less than 365 days.

“The 10X Initiative, the Dubai Future Foundation, and Dubai’s leadership have inspired us to disrupt how we think and how we work, which in turn will bring more meaningful learning and life opportunities to every part of our community. At the Knowledge and Human Development Authority, we were able to simultaneously take part in the Dubai 10X initiative, all the while disrupting our own policies and regulations on an organisational level, and making positive changes to how we approach our work as individuals,” Dr Abdulla Al Karam, chairman of the board of directors and director-general of the KHDA, said.

Our schooling system is exactly how it has been hundred years ago. It didn’t change that much hind Al mualla, chief of Creativity, Happiness and Innovation, KHDA