{"id":2497,"date":"2014-12-11T13:58:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T10:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tourism.plus4d.com\/2014\/12\/11\/72168854642778\/"},"modified":"2014-12-11T13:58:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-11T10:58:00","slug":"72168854642778","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/?p=2497","title":{"rendered":"(USAID) and the Ministry of Education &#8211; laid the cornerstone for  hospitality and tourism training at  School."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Ministry of Education (MoE) laid the cornerstone for a new hospitality and tourism training department at the Jabal Al Qusoor Fundukia School. USAID Acting Deputy Mission Director John Dunlop and the MoE&rsquo;s Director of Vocational Education Eng. Nawwaf Al Dughmi set the cornerstone.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">USAID&rsquo;s support to MoE is helping to modernize the school&rsquo;s Fundukia program and its facilities to prepare students to work in the tourism sector and meet the hospitality industry&rsquo;s demand for skilled workers. USAID&rsquo;s Economic Growth Through Sustainable Tourism Project provided the MoE and the Ministry of Public Works with drawings of the proposed renovations to modernize Jabal Al Qusoor Fundukia School&rsquo;s training labs.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">As part of these renovations, the ground floor will become a food-and-beverage facility &ndash; a kitchen and a restaurant &ndash; and the first floor is being turned into a front office and housekeeping department. The MoE-funded JD220,000 renovation has started and is expected to be completed in six months. USAID is providing nearly JD16,000 worth of equipment for the food-and-beverage department.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">More than 2,000 11th&nbsp;and 12th&nbsp;grade students at 25 high schools around Jordan are currently enrolled in the Fundukia hotel management program, according to Director of Vocational Education Al Dughmi.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Acting Deputy Mission Director Dunlop said the Fundukia hotel management program provides skilled candidates for a field that is crucially important for Jordan. &ldquo;Tourism currently employs about 50,000 Jordanians, and will employ more as the sector grows,&rdquo; he said at the ceremony.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Jabal Al Qusoor Secondary School began offering the Fundukia program in 1996. Roughly 100 students are currently enrolled in the school&rsquo;s program<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Ministry of Education (MoE) laid the cornerstone for a new hospitality and tourism training department at the Jabal Al Qusoor Fundukia School. USAID Acting Deputy Mission Director John Dunlop and the MoE&rsquo;s Director of Vocational Education Eng. Nawwaf Al Dughmi set the cornerstone. &nbsp; USAID&rsquo;s support [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category---tourist-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}