DOHA: The Bedaya Center for Entrepreneurship and SME Development (Bedaya Center) has announced the launch of a new training programme for academic advisors under the theme of ‘Schools Counsellors’ CareerAdvice”, in cooperation with Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) and the Supreme Education Council (SEC).
Launched at HBKU Student Center at Education City, the programme targets counsellors in all independent boy and girl schools, as well as advisors of the Scholarship Office and Career Advice and Development Center at the Council’s Higher Education Institute.
The ‘Career and Academic Advice’ training programme will be held over the next six months, and leading experts from this field will provide independent school academic advisors with the fundamental tools of career and academic counselling, introduce the field’s latest theories and approaches and how to apply them and offer insights on how to develop effective student advice programmes.
The training programme will follow up the school work of academic counsellors and help in the process of advising students on how tomake the proper career choice.
It will also highlight the professional and ethical standards of career and academic advising and how it invaluably contributes to Qatar’s human development strategy.
Leading up to the submission of the final project by the participants, a variety of activities will be held including workshops, lectures, field trips and sessions about international programmes and valuations in the field.
This is the first time a programme of such rich, fully integrated content has been offered to school counsellors in the Arabic language. The Higher Education Institute had already introduced the same programme in English, in collaboration with the American National Career Development Association.
“ The high school academic counsellor plays a central role in guiding the students to choose the academic track that most suits their abilities and interests according to the basic requirements of higher education and the labour market,” said Khalifa Al Dirham, Director of SEC Independent Schools Office.
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