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Saudi ETEC, ALECSO Sign Cooperation Agreement to Enhance Arabic Language Learning Standards

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The Saudi Education and Training Evaluation Commission (ETEC) logo
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Saudi ETEC, ALECSO Sign Cooperation Agreement to Enhance Arabic Language Learning Standards

The Saudi Education and Training Evaluation Commission (ETEC) logo
The Saudi Education and Training Evaluation Commission (ETEC) logo

The Saudi Education and Training Evaluation Commission (ETEC) and the Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (ALECSO) have signed an agreement to enhance Arabic language learning standards and collaborate on the IQ-scale AlifYa Scale specifically tailored for Arab societies.
The deal was signed on Monday during the ALECSO Forum for Business and Partnerships, which took place in Tunisia.
The agreement outlines cooperation between the two entities in developing guidelines for Arabic language learning standards and their subsequent implementation and evaluation within the framework of general education.
It includes designing the content and activities of training programs aimed at building capacity in the field of preparing and assessing Arabic language teaching.
Additionally, the agreement entails the application of the AlifYa Scale to a sample of 1,000 students, both male and female, across various ALECSO member states. A five-day training program will be implemented in this regard.

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UN Puts 4th Century Gaza Monastery on Endangered Site List

The Saint Hilarion complex dates back to the fourth century. Mahmud HAMS / AFP/File
The Saint Hilarion complex dates back to the fourth century. Mahmud HAMS / AFP/File
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UN Puts 4th Century Gaza Monastery on Endangered Site List

The Saint Hilarion complex dates back to the fourth century. Mahmud HAMS / AFP/File
The Saint Hilarion complex dates back to the fourth century. Mahmud HAMS / AFP/File

The Saint Hilarion complex, one of the oldest monasteries in the Middle East, has been put on the UNESCO list of World Heritage sites in danger due to the war in Gaza, the body said Friday.
UNESCO said the site, which dates back to the fourth century, had been put on the endangered list at the demand of Palestinian authorities and cited the "imminent threats" it faced.
"It's the only recourse to protect the site from destruction in the current context," Lazare Eloundou Assomo, director of the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, told AFP, referring to the war sparked by Hamas's October 7 attack on Israel.
In December, the UNESCO Committee for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict decided to grant "provisional enhanced protection" -- the highest level of immunity established by the 1954 Hague Convention -- to the site.
UNESCO had then said it was "already concerned about the state of conservation of sites, before October 7, due to the lack of adequate policies to protect heritage and culture" in Gaza.
The Hamas attack on October 7 resulted in the deaths of 1,197 people in Israel, most of them civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official Israeli figures.
Israel's retaliatory offensive against Hamas has killed at least 39,175 Palestinians in Gaza, according to the Hamas-run territory's health ministry, which does not give details of civilian and militant deaths.