The Ministry of Education, in cooperation with the "Alf Education" company, began today distributing 50 thousand computers, laptops, to students from grades five to nine in 151 government schools, in order to support them in completing their distance education after the end of the spring vacation that was Submit it to start next Sunday.
Alf Education provides the 6 main subjects from the Ministry of Education curriculum, through its online platform, to support interactive distance learning, so that the student can follow his lessons from anywhere and at any time.
The Ministry of Education announced yesterday evening the suspension of all school students and all governmental and private higher education institutions at the state level starting from next Sunday for a period of 4 weeks in the framework of preventive and precautionary steps to ensure the preservation of students ’safety and in line with the efforts and measures taken on National level, aimed at limiting the spread of the Corona virus (Covid-19).
The ministry confirmed in its statement that, according to this decision, the spring vacation has been offered to students of schools that were to start on March 29 this year until April 12 and instead begin next Sunday with the distance learning initiative to be implemented in the last two weeks From leave, thus ensuring the continuity of the educational process at home, and without prejudice to the number of school days.
While Alif Company confirmed that it is in line with the "distance learning" initiative launched by the Ministry of Education to confront crises and natural disasters, Alif provides a means of "distance learning" as a tool to overcome the geographical and temporal obstacles that may prevent students from pursuing their academic and scientific achievement. The Alif platform enables its students to self-learn without the need for them to be in the classroom where they can interact at a time that suits them and from anywhere they are where the Alif system of education since its inception in 2016 was built on enabling distance learning and self-learning so that every student can receive his lessons in the place And the time that suits him.
Alf company indicated that it has been developing and implementing an integrated plan for distance learning that allows the use of its educational platform by teachers and students with ease and ease, noting that the Alif team worked during the past days to develop and implement an integrated plan for distance learning using the platform, to urge students to continue Learn their lessons while they are in their homes, with the support of the school administration, teachers and parents.