Dr. Nada Oweijane called for strengthening our national official diploma through modernizing educational curricula, and criticized the fact of allowing Lebanese students to apply for non-Lebanese diplomas, although the equivalency of the International Baccalaureate and other certificates is well-preserved.
Dr. Oweijane pointed to the need for an awareness in order to establish citizenship and attachment to national, educational and social values among people, considering that those who live in globalization almost reach the stage of non-belonging and hence we shall be living an educational colonialism.
The standpoint of Dr. Oweijane was stated in a television interview discussing basic educational topics as well as the national workshop "Towards a National Evaluation Strategy", which took place in July 2018. This workshop dealt with the evaluation of the official exams and international tests, with the participation of around 600 educators in the official and private sectors and the Faculty of Education at the Lebanese University, attended by the educational inspection and private universities.
Dr. Oweijane considered that CRDP has an essential role in building the future of the Lebanese society by defining the characteristics of the Lebanese learner in which the talents, skills, abilities, arts, energies and attitudes of all matters are combined and refined through an integrated educational system.
Dr. Oweijane ensured that we must invest in building the human resources and providing all the requirements of the curriculum, preparing and training teachers and reconsidering the educational system as a whole. She also called on the Minister of Education and Higher Education to support CRDP and reinforce its main responsibilities.
She pointed to the pivotal role of CRDP in this context, indicating the shortage of specialized human resources and the lack of national / local funding on an ongoing basis, which leads to dependence on donations and loans that have not yet been transferred to CRDP's account to date.
She also highlighted on the fact that the World Bank donation of funds is governed by a defined period of time, the benefit of which expires at the end of 2019, and warned against the use of the loan, which bears additional burden to the State Treasury.
Dr. Oweijane also considered that EDPI and EDPII (Educational Development Projects) have resulted in a duplication of works and warned of the violations of laws as the assigned committee supervising the EDP II did not meet during the last three years of the project to discuss details for proper decision making; she wondered on what basis decisions were taken, then.