Lahdan's Whistle

After the whistle blown by Lahdan Al Mohanadi on the failure of the matriarchal leadership of higher education in Qatar, several people were stimulated by this May spirit and started writing and twitting on the same subject that was thought to be tabooed. Would these early manifestations of public opinion on higher education management lead to any thing ? Any cracking of the 19th century mentality of higher education leadership , the mania of foreign packaged standardized tests and the crippling filtration policy implanted as an arbitrarily approved universities lists . All have left a tiny population of high school graduates outside the government sponsorship scheme for higher education. Cohorts of young Qataris are going through an early life crisis caused by all sorts of barriers to entry manifesting the closed doors policy . Those who designed the educationally rigid , quantitative , single -minded and the one size fit all criteria are blind to see the new trends in education that emphasize the diversity of students , the more advanced concepts of the multiplicity nature of the human intelligence and the technology driven education of the 21 century that transferred learning into a new ecology where the student and not the teacher , is the one who has the upper hand . Education technocrats are responsible for the unaccountable trial and error style of higher education polices . The same technocrats did not go through such , squeeze and supercritical extraction dilemma , even when these orthodox criteria were fashionable once upon a time . Nevertheless they had opened doors to climb the professional ladder and to be on the top of a very important sector in the economy , our precious human capital .


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