DOHA: The GCC states are mulling making suitable changes to their school curricula to prevent youth from being influenced by religious extremism and sectarian movements.
Also, the education ministry’s permission will be needed if students of a school in any GCC state are tasked with collecting donation for a civil society or any other cause.
Saudi Arabia-based news website aliqtesadia.com reported yesterday quoting a senior official from Kuwait that waging a fight against terrorism, violence and sectarianism among their youth through school education was the priority of the GCC countries.
Dr Khalid Al Rasheed, Undersecretary at Kuwait’s Ministry of Education, said that education ministers from the GCC states meeting in his country have discussed the above proposal.
“The ministers were of the view that school education should encourage moderate thinking amongst our youth,” Al Rasheed told aliqtesad.com on the sidelines of the ministerial conference.
By making minor changes in school curricula, moderate thinking can be encouraged among the youth, Dr Khalid Al Rasheed said.
“Our youth must renounce violence and hard-line thinking and start believing in peaceful co-existence and prosperity,” he added.
GCC secretary-general Dr Abdul Lateef Al Zayani told the website that education must play a positive role and help curb the tendency among the region’s youth towards violence and extremism and inculcate such values in them that help them believe in peaceful co-existence.
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