Sharjah24: The Sharjah Private Education Authority (SPEA) has announced the commencement of the 30th cycle of the Sharjah Award for Educational Excellence. This award plays a fundamental role in fostering a culture of excellence, creativity, and innovation within the educational sector and the local community across all demographics and sectors within the United Arab Emirates. As the 30th edition kicks off, distinguished individuals from the educational sector and the local community are encouraged to engage with this prestigious award by visiting the award's website at https://award-shj.ae, acquainting themselves with its categories, criteria, and nomination requirements, and submitting their nominations by completing the registration form on the website.

Over the course of its previous 29 cycles, the award has received generous patronage from His His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah, who has shown appreciation and support for it. His Highness's aim has been to cultivate a spirit of competition and elevate the aspirations of individuals and educational institutions within the educational sector across the nation, contributing to the advancement of creativity and innovation in areas aligned with the country's directions and future vision.

Ali Al-Hosani, Director of the Sharjah Private Education Authority, has expressed sincere gratitude to the founder and sponsor of the award, His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan bin Muhammed Al Qasimi, for his unwavering support of the award. He has underscored that this support reflects His Highness's belief in the significance of education and his steadfast commitment to fostering innovative educational initiatives that enhance the educational sector and education within the country.

He remarked "As we embark on the 30th cycle, we celebrate the successes of the award in its previous cycles, which places everyone under the responsibility of preserving this success and building upon it, striving for further achievements that bolster the dissemination of excellence and competition in educational institutions." He added: "Through positive competition, we anticipate continuous development in performance levels, consolidating the emirate's status as one of the distinguished educational pillars within the nation."

Alia Ibrahim Al Hosani, Director of the Sharjah Award for Educational Excellence, has affirmed the award's pivotal role as an important platform and primary catalyst for promoting positive competition and instilling a culture of excellence, creativity, and innovation within the educational sector and the local community across all sectors and demographics. The award has embraced an ambitious and refreshed strategy to support students, teachers, educational leaders, and the entire school community, empowering them to achieve excellence across various domains.

Alia Al-Hosani expressed pride in the achievements of the award, its fulfillment of goals and aspirations, and the increasing and diversified participation it witnesses, as well as the quality of contributions, all striving for the highest standards of quality and excellence. This encourages the award management to continue its journey of development to keep pace with the evolving needs of the educational community and to ensure the continuity of excellence, creativity, and innovation.

She urged the educational sector and the local community to contribute to the dissemination of a culture of excellence by familiarising themselves with the award's criteria, which create excellence derived from participation and nomination in the 30th cycle. She extended gratitude to school administrations, parents, and all those supporting the journey of excellence, encouraging students, administrative, teaching, and technical staff, as well as the entire school community, to compete and reach the highest levels in the journey of excellence, creativity, and innovation.

She clarified that the current cycle of the award includes a category for distinguished individuals, encompassing: the distinguished student category, the distinguished student category (special categories), the distinguished teacher and the integrated teacher category, the distinguished educational leader category, the distinguished support staff category, and the distinguished parent category. The second category, the distinguished institutions category, includes: the distinguished school category, the distinguished nursery category, the distinguished institutions and partnerships supporting distinguished education category. Additionally, there is the distinguished award, the Jewel of the Arabic Language award, launched to encourage both government and private schools to nurture the Arabic language and embed its significance in the hearts of students, empower the school community with Arabic language skills, employ them in scientific and life domains, and enhance its role in the educational and local community.