By Sherouq Sadeqi (with photos) GRENOBLE, France, April 25 (KUNA) -- Higher Education Undersecretary Dr. Rasha Al-Sabah signed here Friday with the President of Stendhal University in Grenoble Patrick Chezaud an agreement for a program to teach the Arabic language at the Kuwaiti Cultural Office in Paris.
The signing ceremony was attended by the Director of the Kuwaiti Cultural Office Dr. Mohammed Al-Feeli, Tagreed Abu Al-Hassan from the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR), Salwa Al-Mutairi from the Kuwaiti Ministry of Education and Higher Education and the professor in charge of teaching Arabic at the center Rita Mazen.
This agreement signed today aims at setting an official framework for the cooperation between the Cultural Office and the University and to facilitate and boost the exchange between the two sides.
The agreement signed stipulates that the University is responsible for the scientific aspects of the center, where a professor of Arabic and Arab civilization has been assigned to teach Arabic as a foreign language and also Arab civilization.
According to the agreement, Stendhal University is also required to place all its knlwedge and experience, through its assigned professor, to teach Arabic as a foreign language.
The University is also required to include in its teaching curriculum the necessary information to provide and deliver knowledge of the Gulf region and Kuwait in particular to the French audience.
Those who have taken Arabic classes in the center and have completed their course can take a national exam later at the University to attain a national certificate of languages that is accredited on a European level, which is considered an important article in the agreement.
As for the Cultural Office, it is responsible for enlightening the French audience of this educational program through all adequate means.
Dr. Rasha is representing H.H. the Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah at the ceremony inaugurating the Arabic language teaching center for foreigners, which is financed by H.H. Sheikh Nasser. Following the signing of the ceremony Dr. Rasha presented to the President of the University a memento on this occasion. (end) si.ajs KUNA 251818 Apr 08NNNN