UAE BARQ برق الإمارات – نبضك
The UAE Ministry of Education has announced late on Tuesday the the early start of spring vacation for schools and of a distance learning initiative.
“The move forms part of preventive and precautionary measures to ensure the safety of students and in line with efforts and measures taken at the national level, aimed at reducing the spread of the Coronavirus (Coved-19),” an official statement said.
The announcement states that “schools and higher education institutions are to close for four weeks, starting Sunday.”The UAE Ministry of Education has announced late on Tuesday the the early start of spring vacation for schools and of a distance learning initiative.
“The move forms part of preventive and precautionary measures to ensure the safety of students and in line with efforts and measures taken at the national level, aimed at reducing the spread of the Coronavirus (Coved-19),” an official statement said.
The announcement states that “schools and higher education institutions are to close for four weeks, starting Sunday.”
The announcement was made by UAE’s official news agency WAM on Tuesday. It stated the break covers both public and private schools across the country.
Sterlisation programmes for educational facilities will be carried out during the four-week break.
Announcement:
The Ministry of Education on Tuesday announced the disruption of all students in schools and higher education institutions in the country from next Sunday for 4 weeks, according to UAE’s official news agency WAM.
The ministry said in a statement that the decision is in the interest of students and comes as a pro-active step in line with the developments related to the response to crises and natural disasters, and to provide the maximum standards of public safety in the school community, as well as in various institutions of higher education.
Spring break
The ministry confirmed in its statement, that “under this decision, spring break was offered to students of schools that was scheduled to start on March 29 until April 12 next year — and instead begin next Sunday to work on the initiative of distance learning, in the last two weeks of the vacation, thus ensuring the continuity of the educational process at home, and without prejudice in the number of school days.”
The Ministry explained that the interest of students requires this action and, in this regard, all the prior steps were ensured to ensure the progress of the process of distance learning, where this initiative was implemented experimentally, and the educational field was created, students, teachers, administrators and parents for this process, which has proved to be efficient, effective and effective.
The ministry noted in the statement that, in accordance with the decision left to schools and private higher education institutions, to activate the procedures to ensure the continuity of distance learning, as followed by plans in such circumstances, taking into account the arrangement of benefits associated with the conduct of the educational process based on the controls and procedures in place of them, which ensure the achievement of the best standards of learning.
