Education and Culture

The Cultural Division of the Embassy of the Kingdom of Bahrain in Washington, DC has introduced a teaching unit about Bahrain in the American educational curriculum. The unit includes information about history, geography, tradition and achievements of Bahrain.

Recently, an ambitious project to introduce Internet in schools was launched to utilize the Internet in activating the connection and gaining knowledge and information efficiently. It helps to push teaching and learning ahead. This homepage is a medium device between the Ministry and the local and international community. More over, it is a device for positive interaction, through which we hope to improve the standard of education in our motherland.

The Ministry of Education in Bahrain is the official authority for running and administering the governmental educational institutions and supervising private education.

The Ministry mission is represented in ensuring education for all, and improving its quality and standard to meet the learners' needs, the national development requirements and the labor market needs. It will ultimately develop the integrated-balanced personality of the Bahraini good citizen who is able to think and has belief in the Islamic faith and belonging to the Arab nation and international family.

As directed by the political leadership, the Ministry of Education is concerned with the modernization of educational institutions in the country, providing all the material and moral requirements. It believes that human resources represent the main and absolute element in achieving the overall development in all fields.

Therefore, the Ministry of Education has been interested in the continuous educational development, activating the school role, strengthening society's confidence in it, linking it with labor and production sector, and making education more relevant to the Bahraini society and more effective to participate in achieving the national objectives.

The Ministry also has made its efforts in guiding education to be in conformity with the world rapid development, getting ready for the 21st century and facing the technological-scientific development through the preparation of Bahraini citizens to live their coming era with its technological and knowledgeable challenges confidently and enthusiastically. Therefore, all the necessary powers and abilities were directed, modern technology was initially introduced to the Ministry's schools represented in using computers as a teaching-learning tool. Plans were set to eradicate students, administrators, and teachers' computer illiteracy and have been implemented since 1998/99.

Brief information about each level of pre-university formal education, its systems, curriculum, examination ...etc., as well as non-formal education, higher education, private education, and special education. It also includes the study plans for all levels of government schools, and other information concerned with the school year, examinations and vacations timetable...etc.


EDUCATIONAL LADDER IN BAHRAIN
PRE-SCHOOL EDUCATION
BASIC EDUCATION
SECONDARY EDUCATION
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION
PRIVATE EDUCATION-NON-GOVERNMENT
SPECIAL EDUCATION
NON-FORMAL EDUCATION
STUDY PLANS IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS
EXAMINATIONS & VACATIONS TIMETABLE
GENERAL INFORMATION
ARABIAN GULF UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY OF BAHRAIN

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