20% of Bahrain schools failing pupils - report

SCHOOL REPORT: QAAET reports show 20 percent of Bahrain schools are failing pupils. (Getty Images)

A senior Bahrain education official has praised the kingdom’s efforts to improve standards despite the latest reports showing that 20 percent of schools are failing pupils.

Sheikh Khalid bin Abdulla Al Khalifa, chairman of the Quality Assurance Authority for Education and Training (QAAET), said standards of education could not be improved overnight, according to a report in Gulf Daily News.

He was speaking after the release on Monday of QAAET performance reports for schools, vocational colleges and higher education establishments.

"QAAET reviews are based on quality standards that have been previously set in co-operation with highly- esteemed international partners," Sheikh Khalid told the paper.

"These standards meet the local needs of the educational and training system of Bahrain and the growing needs of an era that has witnessed a quantum leap at the local and global levels,” he said.

The government-approved reports evaluated 20 boys and girls schools in Bahrain against a four-point scale of outstanding, good, satisfactory and inadequate.

Eleven schools were rated satisfactory, five good, while the remaining four were given inadequate ratings.

Twelve vocational institutions were rated: two good, five satisfactory, and five below satisfactory. None were rated outstanding or very weak, the paper said.

The kingdom’s two higher education bodies were given ‘confidence' ratings in their business administration bachelor's degrees.

However, they were advised to give "urgent attention" to research and community engagement, the paper said.

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