Al-Mabarrat Charitable Association honoured 474 members of staff working in its teaching and care institutions who had undergone the administrative development programme from 2003 until 2017, in the presence of the directors of the institutions, the departments, the voluntary bodies and the supporting associations, at the Lady Khadija Al-Kubra Mabarra on the Airport Road.
The programme comprised several training packages focused on general administrative skills and human resources management, supervising the teaching programmes and supervising the teaching process, as well as the skills of managing financial resources, managing buildings, facilities and equipment, through to managing school information systems.
According to the programme's supervisor Rana Ismail, the training achieved “a qualitative change at the level of administrative leadership practices, accomplishing capacity building for the association's essential cadres.”
She added: “When Al-Mabarrat expanded, relative to the small number of years, we came to need to build a system that governs this work in a scientific and modern way, including the capacity for continuous improvement. From this starting point the programme was adopted and its training units were converted into policies and systems.”
Ismail pointed out that “the programme was a distinguished and unique experience the trainees went through, and it formed features particular to those working at Al-Mabarrat, in which dedication in service and constant self-evaluation to attain the best are manifested.”
The organizers then presented a filmed report with participants in the programme, in which they spoke of the matters that changed in their administrative practices after the training programme, the convictions that newly emerged at the level of thinking, and the knowledge and skills they had acquired.
There was a speech by the Director General of Al-Mabarrat Dr. Mohammad Baqer Fadlallah in which he said: “This programme gave a greater openness to administration and to teaching methods, which constituted an addition to the educational and administrative system and to its human, value-based and social goals and its faith-based dimensions. We hope that it has encouraged the participants to think, to analyse, to research and to draw conclusions through its applied tasks, in a way that qualifies them for lifelong learning.”
He added: “We went deep into the administrative development programme and moved to further shores with self-evaluation, and to wider horizons with the excellence guide. The training process has become continuous and planned at all its stages, and has moved away from being merely a series of training fragments disconnected from one another.”
He continued: “We want the training programmes not to be rigid with the time to come but flexible programmes that can be applied with the age's changes and that are able to contribute clearly to raising the level of individual performance and to be an indicator in the administrations' performance. We will continue to face the challenge with all these distinguished cadres that have placed Al-Mabarrat's institutions on the road of excellence, in adjusting, designing and preparing training programmes of high competence and effectiveness in harmony with reality and with the age's developments.”
Fadlallah concluded: “The culture of renewal is the way to the culture of the future, and what is required is to continue modernizing Al-Mabarrat's institutions in mission, materially, humanly, educationally and culturally. Here we have walked advanced steps in training on assessment with new terms that were not in our educational lexicon two decades or more ago, and we are still working on measuring the impact of training, which needs more attention from the administrations - because measuring attainments can carry us from group training to individual training.”
The ceremony closed with an artistic item entitled “My Homeland” performed by the students of Al-Mujtaba High School, then the distribution of certificates to those honoured.
