In a significant initiative, the Arab Anti-Corruption Organisation is gearing up to launch its conference with widespread participation from Jordan and across the Arab world. Commencing on Wednesday morning, 11 October, in the Jordanian capital, Amman, the conference is titled “Reforming Education Systems and Curricula in the Arab Countries: Promoting a Culture of Integrity and Rejecting Corruption is a National Eesponsibility.”
The primary objective of the conference is to address the critical issue of corruption through a scientific lens, engaging Arab minds in identifying the deficiencies in how Arab education systems and curricula address the proliferation of corruption. The focus is on leveraging the educational process and its curricula to instill a culture of integrity and actively combat corruption.
A distinguished group of eighteen lecturers and session leaders, representing Jordan, Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq, Tunisia, and Egypt, are set to participate in this symposium. The event holds particular significance for the situation of education under occupation in Palestine, shedding light on how occupation authorities have manipulated educational curricula with the intent of corrupting them and reshaping Palestinian national memory, thereby affecting Palestinian national rights.
The first day of the conference will allocate three of its eight sessions to this crucial topic. Among them is a dialogue session featuring lecturers and experts from Palestine and Jordan in the field of education. This session will be chaired by Dr. Rima Khalaf Al-Huneidi, former Deputy Prime Minister and former Secretary-General of the United Nations ESCWA. As regional stakeholders converge to address corruption through educational reform, the conference marks a pivotal step toward fostering integrity and combating corruption on a national scale.
