Sheikh Mohammed and Sheikh Hamdan speak up for more science lessons
Pupils across the Mena region could soon be watching a science lesson narrated by Dubai’s Rulers, who lent their voices to an education programme yesterday.
Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, Vice President and Ruler of Dubai, and Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed, the emirate’s Crown Prince, were recorded in Arabic for the Translation Challenge project that was launched last year.
“I followed up today on the final stages of the translation challenge project, which aims to reproduce 5,000 educational videos in Arabic that suit all education levels, and provide them for free to all Arab students, with the participation of volunteers from 15 Arab countries,” Sheikh Mohammed tweeted.
The Rulers visited the Translation Factory to inspect the process.
“I volunteered to record an educational lesson in the challenge, and our goal is to provide 5,000 lessons in mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology and science,” Sheikh Mohammed said.
“Translation is one of the renaissance foundations and opens doors to accommodate all kinds of knowledge, and e-learning will be the fastest way to bridge the educational gap in our Arab countries.”
Fifteen hundred videos have already been completed, with more than 300 volunteers working on daily to complete the project.
The initiative follows the launch of the Arab Reading Challenge two years ago, which sought to encourage reading by donating and buying millions of books for schools in the Arab world.