CRDP Acting President, Mr. George Nohra, visited the Prime Minister Dr. Hassan Diab at the Grand Serail, and briefed him on the tasks that CRDP is carrying out at this critical period in light of the current conditions that the country is going through, and the implications of the spread of Corona virus on the educational system. The projects mainly include the remote training platform, promoting educational statistics and research, providing school textbooks and digital resources, and developing the curricula.
Mr. Nohra informed the Prime Minister of the administrative and life demands of CRDP employees and workers along with their hopes that their demands will be put into the course of solution.
Mr.  Nohra presented “CRDP’s achievements within the short period in which he was assigned as CRDP President and mentioned the current projects, plans for the future stage, and a number of the rightful demands of CRDP's workers.”
Mr. Nohra also listed the team’s achievements at CRDP. The most notable ones are: “finalizing the curriculum reduction, the core topics and objectives, CRDP ebooks, and completing a remote learning training plan for teachers; a plan whose implementation started on Monday, 26/10/2020.
In the context of coordination between CRDP and the Ministry of Education and Higher Education (MEHE), this has resulted in: beginning remote training starting from today, launching the training management system (TMS) soon, and networking MEHE’s platform with CRDP’s platform shortly.
Regarding the current activities,  Mr. Nohra informed Prime Minister Diab on  the following: "mapping free digital resources with the contents  of various subject matters according to  the different  stages of education, developing digital resources for the contents  of various subject matters  from Grade One  to Grade Six of Basic Education, and  reconsidering the competencies in various subject matters ." Mr. Nohra further explained the plans for the next stage. They include: "a preliminary roadmap for curricula development - along with its requirements and the initiation of its implementation, adding a subject matter that focuses on ethics and another which focusses on teaching thinking, accomplishing the subject matter of History, and establishing a unit for developing digital resources ".
As far as the demands of CRDP employees are concerned, Mr. Nohra expressed to Prime Minister Diab  a wish  "to attend to the requests  of CRDP employees by supporting the following files: the  series of ranks and salaries that they have not received until today, the decree of temporary  employees at CRDP, and the  retirement law of CRDP’s staff."
The Prime Minister affirmed his interest and appreciation for the product carried out by CRDP, and stressed the importance of launching the curriculum development workshop and making it digital and interactive especially that many teachers have already started being engaged in implementing blended education, and that the decision of opting for digital education has become simpler and more realistic.