Most notably, the lack of commitment to divergence and complacency in the entry criteria for students

The Ministry of Education detects irregularities in applying the precautionary measures in schools

• "Education" worked with the educational field to establish protocols for reopening schools.

  Photography: Patrick Castillo

• Dr. Rabia Al-Sumaiti: "The ministry will not be complacent in not adhering to the precautionary measures, and violating schools will be required to properly apply them."

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The supervision teams of the Ministry of Education carried out more than 200 monitoring visits to schools during the first week of the current school year, to check on the extent of commitment to implementing protocols and precautionary measures to protect students and workers in the educational field from infection with the new Corona virus, and the teams monitored a group of violations, most notably non-compliance Physical separation between people in the school, and negligence in the standards of students entering and leaving the school, such as measuring the temperature of the student, as well as violating the system of distributing students on school buses.

The Assistant Undersecretary for the Performance Improvement Sector, Dr. Rab'a Al-Sumaiti, confirmed, in media statements, that the ministry will not tolerate non-compliance with the implementation of precautionary measures, and violating schools will be required to properly apply the specified procedures, to ensure the health and safety of students and workers in the educational field.

She also confirmed that the Ministry's supervisory teams will continue throughout the academic year to monitor the implementation of precautionary and preventive measures that would ensure the safety of students and workers in the educational field.

And she noted that «the ministry has worked with the educational field to set up protocols and procedures for the reopening of schools, whether governmental or private, and stressed the need for schools to apply these protocols and procedures, because they are concerned with all that ensures the provision of a healthy and safe environment for students, whether in terms of educational staff, Or proper nutrition, or students entering and leaving school, or school buses, etc., and the Ministry implemented a realistic simulation experiment days before the beginning of the current school year, as it implemented a full school day, starting from the student’s entry into school until leaving it to ensure that these procedures are appropriate for the educational field, And improving what needs to improve them ».

She pointed out that the option of distance learning is available to everyone, whether in private or government schools, as the Ministry noticed, after polling the opinions of the students' parents, that a large percentage of them want to continue learning remotely, and then the message that the ministry aims to confirm is that «if The school found that it is better for it to continue learning from a distance for a period that is agreed upon between the ministry and the school, based on the resources and resources available in it, it is allowed to do so, the goal is to ensure the school’s readiness to implement the optimal scenario for education, and there are schools that have chosen hybrid learning, until it brings together students in Distance learning) and students in school education (real education) ».

Regarding the procedures for examining "Covid-19" in the educational field, she explained that the ministry decided to conduct the examination before the start of the school year for school workers and students aged 12 years and over, based on the agreement between the ministry and health authorities in the country, and therefore no staff will enter An educationalist or a student who chose realistic education in school, unless the result of his examination was "negative", indicating that the periodic examinations will continue throughout the school year, especially for the educational staff, and the date of the examinations will be determined every two or three weeks, according to what the health authorities decide, and according to plans Agreed upon at the state level.

She added: “We aimed to have a clear vision of the mechanism for returning to schools, and what the educational system in the UAE is in the first semester of the current school year, so we were keen to study all the data, especially since the educational field had gone through the experience of distance learning in the previous academic year, and that is why we involved it and the parties. »Education and other stakeholders partnering with the Ministry of Education, in addition to surveying the opinions of students’ parents, in determining the educational models that can be applied during the school year, so that we are aware of all the data according to which we must develop a back-to-school plan.

Over a million students

The Assistant Undersecretary for the Performance Improvement Sector, Dr. Rab'a Al-Sumaiti, stated that "the educational field in the country includes more than one million students in public and private schools, distributed from kindergarten to grade 12, in addition to more than 141 thousand educational and administrative staff in schools nationwide." , Pointing out that «the ministry approved that the process of returning to schools is correct and sound for everyone, by applying several procedures, including that returning to schools for everyone at the same time, after polling the opinions of students’ parents, and then the percentage of students ’attendance in the first and second weeks From the current academic year, it does not exceed 25% in all public and private schools, and with monitoring the situation and exploring all matters, we aim to increase the attendance rate to 50% on September 13, and then increase the percentage until we reach 100% of students returning to schools.

And she continued: “Through a survey of students’ parents ’opinions, we noticed a clear percentage of them prefer distance learning. Therefore, upon the gradual increase in students’ attendance in schools, the Ministry will continue to provide all options for their families. We will also continue to poll parents ’views about the educational process during the school year.

• Periodic examinations continue throughout the school year, especially for the teaching staff.

• 200 monitoring visits carried out by the Ministry of Education during the first week of the current academic year.

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