ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER GDI, QP sign El Jaish, QR5.2bn Barcelona contracts enter semis Business | 17 Sport | 28 Tuesday 9 September 2014 • 14 Dhu’l-Qa’da 1435 • Volume 19 Number 6183 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Emir receives US, French envoys Independent Survey to solve school staff face drinking, immigration smoking ban DOHA: The teaching and non-teaching staff members of Independent Schools have been barred from consuming alcohol woes at airport and using tobacco even while they are off duty and outside of school premises. The Supreme Education Suggestions from public pour in Council (SEC) has said in a cir- cular issued yesterday that in DOHA: Immigration cubicles should be a passport unit at the order to become a role model for at Hamad International Airport airport so a citizen can immedi- students and show exemplary (HIA) should have electronic ately get his passport renewed if behaviour, both the teaching and token system for the waiting it has expired. non-teaching staff members of passengers to guide them to the Some nationals realise while at Independent Schools must not right desk and help avoid delays, the airport that their passports use alcohol, tobacco, drugs or any a respondent to a survey has have expired. such material while they are in suggested. They return disappointed school or even outside of it. Or, at least the cubicles, in despite the fact that they The Education Institute of both departure and arrival sec- must travel urgently, said the the SEC has sent the circulars tions, should have green light respondent. to the operators and directors of which should be automatically One said that at the old airport Independent Schools and urged on when one is empty and ready using the e-gate was easier with The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani receiving credentials of Dana Shell Smith, Ambassador of them to hand them to the staff to serve a waiting passenger, said the identity (ID) card. But at the the US, at the Emiri Diwan yesterday. The Emir also received new French Ambassador Eric Chevallier. In members and ask them to comply the respondent. new airport, one needs to use the separate meetings, the Emir granted the sash of merit to the outgoing Belgium Ambassador Herman Sercus with the guidelines therein. “This will also give a clear idea boarding pass. and Kazakhstan envoy Azamat Berdibay. Strict action will be taken as to how fast the person sitting There should be a special against those staff members who behind the desk is working.” counter at the airport which violate the guidelines that total 10 The airport’s immigration should help people use smart- and begin by talking about their unit, called the Airport Security cards and it should issue ID relations with students, their par- and Passports Department, has (identity) cards as well, said a SEC rule on absenteeism pays off ents, the community in general launched a survey with the aim respondent. and their colleagues and bosses. of improving its services. In the survey, the airport immi- DOHA: The tough rules being new academic year on Sunday. the first day of the academic year The violators would first be told The survey has been launched gration has asked questions like implemented by the Supreme A decision issued by the with a positive outcome. about the fact that they are flout- on the website of the Ministry of how one feels the services pro- Education Council (SEC) to Minister of Education and Some schools had sent ing the guidelines. They would Interior in the Arabic language vided by the unit are. curb the menace of absentee- Higher Education and SEC text messages to parents to then be issued a warning and even and feedback from the people is “Do you think the desks are ism in Independent schools chairman H E Dr Mohammed get them acquainted with the then if they don’t fall in line their pouring in. enough (in both, arrival and seems to have a positive impact, bin Abdul Wahid bin Ali Al new policy. Most schools used services would be terminated. Doha’s new airport is the best departure sections) to provide the with many schools reporting a Hammadi last week barred the first day of the school to Meanwhile, a Decree Law one in the Gulf after Dubai’s and required services,” is the second relatively high attendance rate Independent school students explain to students the details issued yesterday (No 13 of 2014), it is well-organised, but there are question. from the very first day of the with low attendance from tak- of the ministerial decision and by the Emir, H H Sheikh Tamim delays in people getting cleared, “Do you think the time taken new academic year. ing their continuous assessment its seriousness. bin Hamad Al Thani, asks the said another respondent. for passport handling during exit Attendance on the first two tests and term examinations. “We had a 70 percent attendance SEC to pay school vouchers (term Yet another said that in both and entry at the airport is okay,” days of the opening of schools The rule applies to students from on the first day which was better fees) for Qatari students directly departure and arrival sections is the third question. ranged from 60 percent to 85 per grade 4 to grade 12. compared to the past four aca- to the schools concerned (where there should be clear signs guid- The department then urges cent, which the school officials say Quoting school officials, a local demic years,” Independent school those students are enrolled). ing passengers to the immigration people to give suggestions, if any, was higher compared to the past Arabic daily reported yesterday operator was quoted as saying. However, those Qatari stu- desks. to improve its services. academic years. All Independent that most schools have started Continued on page 4 dents whose fathers get education One respondent said that there THE PENINSULA and private schools opened for the implementing the decision from THE PENINSULA allowance for their children from their employers (state entities) would not be eligible to get these vouchers. Education vouchers are a system whereby the government pays the tuition and other fees for Abbas trying to Qatari students to private schools January World Cup back on Fifa agenda where they are enrolled. destroy unity THE PENINSULA BERNE: FIFA has revived understanding that it would presented with information on Last November, Blatter cat- deal: Hamas the possibility of staging the be staged in the summer the implications of staging the egorically ruled out a winter 2022 World Cup in January and despite the searing heat in the event in winter as opposed to World Cup that could clash with Dubai plans $32bn GAZA CITY: Hamas yesterday February after President Sepp country. summer, as proposed by the FIFA the Winter Olympics. accused Palestinian President Blatter previously ruled out the Although Qatar has insisted executive committee,” said FIFA “The FIFA World Cup can only airport expansion Mahmoud Abbas of trying to idea last year. that a summer World Cup is via- in a statement. be played in November/December sabotage a fragile reconcilia- Three possible time slots were ble thanks to cooling technolo- “FIFA secretary general Jerome 2022, no way it’s going to take DUBAI: Dubai will spend tion agreement after he accused discussed for the tournament as a gies it is developing for stadiums, Valcke clarified that, based on place in January/February,” he $32bn on expanding its sec- them of running “a shadow gov- FIFA task force, set up specifically training areas and fan zones, the hosting agreement, the FIFA told a news conference in Abu ond airport to handle over 200 ernment” in Gaza. to decide once and for all when there is still widespread concern World Cup must be held in 2022. Dhabi at the time. million people annually next In a sharply worded attack it should take place, met for the over the health of the players and “The options of January/ “We have to see how we can decade, roughly triple the cur- on Hamas, Abbas on Saturday first time at the headquarters of visiting supporters. February 2022 and November/ have the FIFA World Cup played rent level of passenger traffic threatened to break off the unity soccer’s governing body yesterday. “Discussions centred around December 2022 were put forward in winter, but only Nov/Dec are through the emirate, airport agreement over the group’s de Qatar was awarded the the 2022 FIFA World Cup in as alternatives to June/July 2022, possible.” authorities said yesterday. facto control of the Gaza Strip. World Cup on the widely held Qatar, and participants were and initial feedback received.” AFP REUTERS But Abbas’s words sparked an angry response from Hamas, with spokesman Fawzi Barhum accusing him in turn of trying “to destroy the reconciliation and play into the hands of the Independence vote: Billions Americans and the Israelis.” Hamas forcibly took over the Gaza Strip in 2007, ousting forces wiped off Scottish firms loyal to Abbas and sparking a bit- ter and bloody split with his Fatah LONDON: Billions of pounds YouGov poll had showed a small movement, which continued for were wiped off the value of lead for the yes campaign. years until the two sides signed a companies with Scottish links American Nobel prize-win- reconciliation deal in April. and the pound was pummelled ning economist Paul Krugman The deal led to the formation as markets took fright at the echoed the analysts’ view, warn- of a government of national con- increasing prospect of Scotland ing Scotland it was unsafe to vote sensus, which took office on June voting next week to break away yes while uncertainty about the 2, following which Gaza’s Hamas from the United Kingdom.