Meeting Report – AAA Team
The meeting was last Thursday 27th Oct., 2011 at 8:30 – 9:00AM. Abdulla Al Haj was the chairman, Abdulrahman Al Haj was time keeper and Ahmed Al Rawahi was the note taker. As a chairman Abdulla started his meeting by welcoming the attendance and introducing each one for the attendance. There was no absence, so the meeting started perfectly. After welcoming the attendance he starts to give a clear idea why he set this meeting and for what. The main for setting this meeting aim was about co-education at HCT. There were main points and sub-points in our agenda which we talked about. The main topics were culture, academic performance, privacy, costs, student conduct and facilities which contain the sub-points which were canteen, library and activities.
For the culture one of the attendees accepted the idea and his reason was because that we are in the 21th century, while the other said that there are some families which are stick with their culture and they will not accept that idea. We didn’t reach for a solution for this point so the chairman moved to the other point so that the attendees will change their point of view from it.
The second point was about academic performance. All of the attendees think that there will be a challenge between the both genders and they gave an idea which was to give a bonus for the highest gender who will got the highest mark in each exam and they recommend to do a contract with some shops and to make a special discount for the all the gender which get the highest mark to turn the challenge on.
The third point was about privacy. One the attendees suggest to build classes with two floors so each gender may have their own floor. But the other attendees give a better solution which was to make a partition to reduce the cost. Also if there is a handicapped it will be hard for them to reach the second floor. Moreover the chairman gave his idea which was to use the technology if the student has any comments of questions.
At this point the chairman hand over to Mr. Abdulrhman to give his opinion for the next point and to discuss it between each other. His point was about the cost. His opinion was that will be a reduction for the cost will be less in terms of buying lands, and construction cost. Also they add that the budget will be less because the number of teachers and stuffs will include the reduction which means that the annually budget of the college will be less.
The chairman wanted to be fair between the attendees so he handle the next point for Mr. Ahmed which was about the student conduct. He mentioned that some of the females will shy and will not be active in the class so she will be affected if there is a personal development assessment. We solved that problem from the previous point which was the privacy and they will use OneNote session to write their comments and questions for the lecturer and at the last 30 minutes of the class he will be answering for these comments and questions.
At this time the chairman gave his final main point which was about the facilities which include the sub-point which are the canteen, library and activities. For the canteen we decided to make one canteen with partition for females that they can feel free and take of their face covers. For the library we decide to have one library for both genders but time table will be provided for each gender. For the activities we decide to build a two and one for each gender so they can exercise activities in the time that they want.
The chairman retunes to the first point which was about the culture and the attendees who was rejecting this point change his mind and he accept the idea of co-education because the system respects our culture and tradition also its more useful and costless for government.
At this point the chairman asked if anyone have any other comments before wrapping the meeting. He got one comment which was doing a survey among the families and students if there is any recommendation or new ideas and he accept that comment.
All in all, I would like to conclude this report with the list of recommendation to HCT administration:
- Build one college for both genders.
- Doing lecture for the parents for the new system and how it will be applied.
- Bonus and special discounts for highest average gender.
- All classes include partition.
- Using technology in classes “OneNote”.
- One canteen for both gender with a partition for females so that they can feel free and take of their face covers.
- One library for both genders but time table will be provided for each gender.
- Two activities places, one for the males and the other for the females so no one can enter the others activities and will feel free.
