Education Ministry, Pearson complete rolling out BTEC qualifications in Jordan’s education system, 2nd add

He explained that the program started in September 2023 with six majors, namely: Engineering, Business, Information Technology, Hospitality, Agriculture, and Hair and Beauty. In 2024-2025, four new majors will be added: Creative Media, Tourism and Travel, Art and Design, and Building and Construction, taught in 310 schools distributed in all regions of the Kingdom, with 653 classrooms, with 33,627 students studying at the second and third levels. He explained that the Ministry of Education appointed 1318 male and female teachers in addition to the educational cadres that were already present to teach these majors, indicating that the ministry worked to train old and new educational cadres by up to 3200 teachers, supervisors and heads of vocational education at the level of the ministry, directorates and schools between 2023 and 2024. He pointed out that the ministry is currently discussing with Pearson to expand the development of health and sports specialties. The fourth technological revolution, Mahafazah underlined, has caused a huge gap between the skills of the workforce and the requirements of the labor market and production; many professions have disappeared and new ones have been created, which means that it is necessary to adapt to these changes to reduce the risks of this gap, such as unemployment and market depression. This has necessitated the provision of a vocational education system capable of responding to these changes, based on the specialized practical and applied aspect, within educational environments that provide all modern requirements that support learning, gaining experience, and expanding professional and technical paths and options. Pearson trained 1,385 staff from 266 state schools across Jordan to deliver these specialised programs. Training was conducted both online and in-person, spanning over 500 sessions across Amman, Irbid, and Petra, involving 85 subject matter experts. It covered essential areas such as teaching and assessing BTEC qualifications, assignment writing, assessmen t, quality assurance, internal verification, and standardisation. The learning company also conducted "Train the Trainer" sessions for over 350 Ministry staff to support teachers joining the program. Source: Jordan News Agency