Educational centers announced that they have stopped providing private lessons services to students, as part of preventive measures to limit the spread of the new Corona virus, and prevented parents of their children's students from going to collective private lessons, for fear of infection, while educators stressed that fear of the virus is an opportunity to eliminate Private lessons, especially with the implementation of distance education programs, and the provision of all curricula and explanations to students across the platforms of the Ministry of Education and private schools.

In detail, the parents of Emirates Today students were informed that they prevented their children from going to private lessons because of their fears of being infected with the virus, pointing to the abolition of teachers of collective private lessons, and only individual lessons, while raising the price of the share to at least double.

Parents of high school students (an American and British curriculum), Enas Hassan, Afaf Muhammad and Muhammad Shawky, explained that they have stopped all private lessons that their children receive, and decided to wait for the distance education experience that will begin to be applied next week, to assess the students ’response to the explanation and their commitment By learning, indicating that they can resort to individual private lessons only, in the event that there is difficulty facing the student in a particular subject.

Relatives of students, Ahmed Al-Alfi, Hatem Salah, Amal Fawzi, Kholoud Nasser and Mahasin Al-Tarfi, indicated that they had received letters from teachers stating that group lessons were canceled and replaced for those who wanted individual classes, with an increase in the price of 100 dirhams that each student paid in A group consisting of about six students to 250 dirhams per class.

On the other hand, «Emirates Today» monitored advertisements promoting private lessons via the Internet through distance education centers, announcing its readiness to give private lessons to school students in all grades, in addition to lessons for university students and masters in the fields of accounting, business administration, and engineering, And that is through "video conferencing", and the programs of telephone conversations.

Some ads offered the possibility to participate in a free session to ensure the integrity of the system and the ability of teachers to explain and interact with the student, while giving the learner the freedom to choose between more than one teacher and more than one date to get the lesson interactively, while giving him an identification number through which he can enter the site and view the lesson Again an unlimited number of times.

On the other hand, the director of one of the educational centers in Abu Dhabi, Majed Shoman, confirmed to «Emirates Today» that the decision to close is temporary, and the activity will be resumed once the study returns to normal in schools, indicating that the decision to close will entail significant financial losses as a result of the recruitment of most centers For teachers from outside the country, especially those specializing in teaching curricula for international tests.

While educators in public and private schools, Muhammad Khamis, Ali Hassan, Ahmed Sobhi, Amal Radi and Aisha Abdullah, emphasized that the application of the distance education system is a great opportunity for students and their families to dispense with private lessons, and eliminate this harmful phenomenon, noting that all curricula will be Available, and schools will launch electronic educational platforms to provide lessons, to ensure that students are not cut off from educational achievement, to preserve their academic level during school disturbances, and to provide them with various lessons and experimental tests while they are in their homes, and therefore it is better for them to follow instead of wasting time and risking infection in Vero. «Corona».

They pointed out that resorting to individual private lessons constitutes the risk posed by lessons in a group, where the teacher can become infected and become a mobile virus that transmits infection to every home he enters, while private lessons online represent a waste of time and money, especially as they are available all the time and in the best ways for free to students .

While the Department of Education and Knowledge advised students not to attend classes for external institutions or training centers that provide additional support for languages ​​or other materials such as mathematics and others, in order to preserve their health and safety, noting that the distance education process will begin on March 22, when all schools will provide study materials Based on your curriculum requirements and covering basic subjects that include Arabic, Mathematics, Science and English.

3 free educational platforms

Alfa Education, the leading global company specialized in providing technological solutions for the education sector, has announced the availability of its three digital platforms in the service of the science and education march to all students in the United Arab Emirates, who are looking to pursue their educational achievement, through the website Learning4all.alefed.com

She pointed out that the three platforms include: A platform, which is a smart interactive digital platform that serves students from the fifth grade to the ninth grade, and provides an immediate assessment of students, as well as automatic correction of the students ’answers during their interaction, and contains all the lessons that students need to understand the curricula of the Ministry of Education , Prepared with international specifications, in addition to a special application for parents so that they can know the performance of their children continuously from anywhere.

She pointed out that the second platform is the interactive “ABCs” platform, which is an integrated platform for teaching Arabic to children from kindergarten to the fourth grade and is compatible with the national document of the United Arab Emirates, while the third platform is the Curio application, which combines fun and entertainment on the one hand and learning Mathematics, science and Arabic language, on the other hand, where the application allows the use of the concept of entertaining competitions in a stimulating and interactive educational context.

Some ads offered the possibility to participate in a free online quota to ensure the integrity of the system.

The experiment will start in the next week, to assess the students ’response to the explanation and their commitment to learning.