{"id":41061,"date":"2015-05-17T20:34:30","date_gmt":"2015-05-17T17:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sana.sy\/en\/?p=41061"},"modified":"2015-05-17T20:36:52","modified_gmt":"2015-05-17T17:36:52","slug":"arab-teachers-unions-conference-kicks-off-in-damascus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=41061","title":{"rendered":"Arab Teachers Union&#8217;s conference kicks off in Damascus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Damascus, SANA \u2013 Under the patronage of President Bashar al-Assad, activities of the 19th general conference of the Union of Arab Teachers (UAT) kicked off on Sunday in Damascus.<br \/>\nDelegations from 12 Arab countries are taking part in the 3-day conference which is set to discuss the main issues and challenges facing Arab teachers.<\/p>\n<p>During the conference, Education Minister Hazwan al-Waz stressed the importance of the teachers&#8217; role in consolidating the values of citizenship and belonging as well as their contribution to the homeland&#8217;s steadfastness.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Waz pointed out that the destruction wrought to antiquities and historical monuments revealed &#8220;a grave vacuum in the Arab educational performance and proves that curricula were not up to the standard&#8221;, which he said makes it imperative to reconsider the current curricula and prepare teachers on a new basis in a way that establishes the inseparability of education and teaching.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/conference.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-41064\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/conference-300x184.jpg\" alt=\"conference\" width=\"300\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/conference-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/conference.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For his part, Secretary General of the UAT Faraj al-Murtada affirmed that Syria and some other Arab countries are &#8220;in the grip of sad events that target their culture and existence&#8221; stoked by regional powers and international intelligence to serve the Zionist entity.<\/p>\n<p>For his part, Premier Dr. Wael al-Halaqi said in a statement to reporters following the opening of the conference that the participation of Arab delegations drives home a strong message that &#8220;the free Arab citizens are supporting Syria against the terrorist war targeting the entire Arab nation and the national Arab identity, not only Syria.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Manar al-Frieh\/Manal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damascus, SANA \u2013 Under the patronage of President Bashar al-Assad, activities of the 19th general conference of the Union of Arab Teachers (UAT) kicked off on Sunday in Damascus. Delegations from 12 Arab countries are taking part in the 3-day conference which is set to discuss the main issues and challenges facing Arab teachers. During &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41063,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[115,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-local","category-news-locals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41061"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}