Dina Johnny (Dubai)
Today, 282,134 male and female students in the Emirati school will resume their school work with the beginning of the second semester of the 2021-2022 school year, with the distance education system for all educational levels, which will last for two weeks, according to the directives of the Ministry of Education and the National Emergency Crisis and Disaster Management Authority, provided that Always in attendance for the educational, technical and administrative staff. As for private schools in Dubai and Sharjah, education will be in person, amid intensive preparations and precautionary measures similar to what was applied last year with the start of the school year, provided that the rest of the regions apply the educational system that they deem appropriate and compatible with the preparations of their schools.
The Emirates Foundation for School Education has set a plan for the delivery of detailed textbooks for the second semester, which applies to all schools of the Foundation. The distribution of books begins today, Monday, until Friday, January 7, according to a schedule in which the names of the schools that will receive the books during the weekdays in various regions of the country have been identified.
The directors of the domain also assured the principals of public schools that the study plan has not changed, calling for the necessity to adhere to the dates set for the start and end of the daily school day, and to coordinate with school transportation.
The Foundation has stressed the need to take the necessary measures and measures to ensure the safety of students and educational cadres, and to raise the levels of work in the safe return to school protocol, in cooperation with the competent authorities, stressing the need for educational and technical staff to adhere to attending schools. While students in Dubai private schools head to their schools to mark the start of the second semester, the Knowledge and Human Development Authority in Dubai has set a number of requirements, including stopping collective classroom and extracurricular activities, preventing gatherings and school trips, and closing canteens for the first two weeks of the second semester.
The Knowledge and Human Development Authority has given schools the flexibility to extend school hours to ensure their ability to meet the requirements of the educational curriculum after consulting parents, provided that they are notified of the updated working hours, with a commitment to end their work hours on Friday before 12 noon.
Schools have prepared to receive their students with a package of approved guidelines to ensure the highest levels of readiness, within the framework of cooperation between the various elements of the educational community, while emphasizing the need for prior consultation between private schools, their cadres and parents to keep pace with the approved procedures and instructions.
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The Ministry of Education, through Hazza Al Mansouri, Director of the Government Communications Department, had confirmed that the distance education decision includes schools, universities and training centers at the state level, provided that hybrid education is applied in disciplines that depend on practical application, laboratories and clinical training in universities and training centers.
Among the controls for conducting the educational process is the necessity that all students at all levels obtain a negative examination result of no more than 96 hours when they start studying in educational facilities, and the green traffic system will be implemented for parents through the Al-Hosn application to enter educational facilities.
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