Among the recommendations related to the age group (12-15 years) is to ensure that basic education is compulsory and that focus is placed on quality education, increase the number of schools dedicated to technical and vocational education, and add courses that consolidate Jordanian national identity and Jordanian history in the school curricula. This is in addition to offering courses on civic education, democratic culture, the values of tolerance, citizenship and political participation in the curricula and extracurricular activities, and the training of the teaching staff.
The recommendations called for focusing on political and ethical values, accepting the other opinion through extracurricular activities, activating student councils for this age group, and for civil society institutions to contribute to training and empowerment in line with relevant laws and regulations.
As for the recommendations related to the age group (16-18 years), they include the formation of municipal councils of adolescents, with a representative of each school in the municipal council and within the geography of the municipality, and an increased focus on technology (such as the Internet of things, the fifth industrial revolution, artificial intelligence, data processing and analysis, and cybersecurity fundamentals).
The committee called for offering courses on political and constitutional culture and the history of Jordanian democracy, focusing on the discussion papers of His Majesty the King, and introducing the most prominent national figures who contributed to building the state. It also called for the Ministry of Education’s methodological plans to highlight human rights principles and concepts, good morals, values of pluralism and tolerance, and the rights and issues of persons with disabilities.
For the age group (19-22 years), the committee urged public and private universities to allocate budgets for student unions and councils with the aim of holding extracurricular activities on campus and in accordance with the financial bylaw of each university. It also called on them to restructure and activate the role of student clubs and student affairs deanships in a way that invests youth energies, as well as creating student clubs concerned with political empowerment and participation in public life.
As for the age group (23-35 years), the committee recommended launching a national program to empower young candidates for elected councils, involving young people in the boards of trustees of universities, government bodies, and government boards of directors, and exempting unemployed graduates from membership fees for professional unions for at least the first year.
It also called for increasing government funding for civil society institutions that specialize in empowering youth politically and economically, and facilitating procedures for obtaining funding from donors in accordance with the applicable regulations and instructions.
Source: jordan News Agency