Required to reduce student leave to finish school in June

The students' students appealed to the officials to reduce the leaves of the first and second semesters, so that the school year ends in early June, and does not extend to July, due to the high summer weather temperatures.

On the other hand, the Ministry of Education affirmed its keenness to ensure that the school holidays are in line with the highest international standards, to ensure the continuity of the educational skills acquired by students.

In detail, the father of one of the students, Abdel Hamid El-Sayed said: “The leave of the end of the first semester is exaggerated, as it is four weeks, and it is in an atmosphere suitable for studying and developing students’ skills, during which they are more focused than studying during the summer months, so it is better not to increase Its duration is two weeks until the study ends two weeks before the scheduled date, so that it will be on June 18, instead of the second of next July, according to the school calendar approved for the current academic year.

The mother of a student, Azza Mohammed, who works as a teacher in one of the private schools, said, “The last weeks of the school year before the end of the year test witness cases of students’s absence, laziness of those attending them in classes, and many of them go to private lessons at home during the time specified by the student. And therefore he sees in the school during this period a burden on him, and this is all due to the length of the school year due to the multiple vacations during it.

The mother of a student, Shaimaa Ahmed, called on the Ministry of Education to reduce the leave of the end of the first semester to only two weeks, and the end of the second semester to one week, until the end of the academic year is submitted, so that students do not have to study during the months of June and July, to avoid a high degree Weather temperature.

She suggested that the Ministry and the bodies responsible for private education at the state level organize mandatory extracurricular activities for students, for a full month, after the end of the end of the school year exams, until the goal of prolonging the school year is achieved, which is to ensure that students acquire educational skills, and develop the applied side of the study material that Students studied it during the academic year, and in this way the ministry achieves what it aspires to support students' skills.

On the other hand, the Ministry of Education announced on its website, finally, the school calendar for the next academic year 2020-2021, in which students will start working on August 30 in public schools (public education schools), private schools that adopt the ministerial curriculum, and foreign schools.

While academic staff time in general education schools and schools applied to the Ministry’s curriculum for the next academic year 2020-2021 begins, on August 23, 2020, provided that students start on the 30th of the same month, and the next academic year witnesses the unification of the foreign school hours with general education schools and schools Private sector that adopts the ministerial curriculum, whether for the academic body, or students.

Students' work hours end in the academic year 2020-2021 for public education schools and private schools that apply the curriculum of the ministry and foreign schools on the first of July 2021, and on the eighth of the same month for the academic staff in all schools, bringing the number of school days for the academic year 2020-2021 to 181 One day with exams.

In its response to a question for «Emirates Today», about asking students to need to review the classroom licenses and reduce them so that the school year does not extend to the summer period, the Ministry of Education stated that the school calendar is approved by the Ministerial Council for Development, and has not changed in the current school year On him in the past school year, indicating that she is keen to ensure that school holidays are in line with the highest international standards, to develop the educational skills acquired by students.

"Education" school holidays are in line with the highest international standards.

Students' attendance for the next academic year starts August 30 in public, private, and foreign schools.