Elham Ahmed: Procedures of integration must preserve rights students, teachers

The co-chair of the External Relations Department of the Autonomous Administration, Elham Ahmed, confirmed that the new phase that Syria is witnessing requires completing the necessary executive steps to ensure the integration of students and teachers into educational institutions, in a way that preserves their right to education and enhances the stability of the educational process.

In an interview with ANHA agency, Elham Ahmed said about the educational process: “With the start of a new phase of institutional work in Syria, the importance of completing the executive steps to ensure the integration of students and teachers, in a way that preserves their right to education and enhances the stability of the educational process, is highlighted.”

She pointed out that Kurdish students who received their education in the Kurdish language face a number of procedures in some government schools that need more clarity and organization, including conducting tests in Arabic, and requiring translation and certification of certificates, in addition to the lack of clarity in the mechanism for accepting students and integrating teachers so far.

Elham Ahmed added: “In Kobani, Al-Hasakah, and Qamishlo, as in Aleppo and Afrin, we look forward to unified and clear procedures that take into account the specificity of the transitional phase, and make it easier for students and teachers to move to the new educational institutions smoothly.”

She indicated that these procedures raise challenges for students and teachers, stressing the need to reconsider them in an effective and responsible manner, and work to review them and unify their mechanisms, ensuring that administrative procedures or linguistic requirements do not become obstacles to the right to education, and that teachers continue to perform their educational mission.

She stressed that the current stage requires a practical and coordinated treatment that puts the interests of students and the stability of the educational process at the top of priorities, explaining that the success of institutional integration requires clarity in instructions, coordination between the concerned parties, and mutual trust that guarantees every student his right to continue his education, and every teacher has the opportunity to continue performing his educational mission.

Elham Ahmed concluded by emphasizing that “the new phase allows us to build an educational model that reflects the diversity of Syria, preserves its languages ​​and cultures, and enhances all its children’s sense of partnership and equal citizenship, not placing administrative or linguistic obstacles in front of them.”

ANHA