Kuwait Cabinet recently decided to extend the school holidays for an additional two weeks till 26 March, as part of precautionary measures being taken to contain the spread of new coronavirus. The decision includes all schools, universities, government and private colleges, military colleges, and other educational institutions in the country.
In line with the decision to close educational institutions, the Department of Private Education (DPE) at the Ministry of Education (MoE) had published a circular that allows for alternate teaching methods while keeping the safety of students and teachers in mind. According to guidelines issued by the DPE, private foreign and bilingual schools in the country can continue their syllabus through their e-learning platforms, if they are available and if teachers and students have been trained on the system.
In the meantime, many Indian schools where annual examinations for up to grade 8 were scheduled to take place this month, have decided to cancel the tests. In a circular from the management, the schools notified all students, teachers and parents that the examinations had been cancelled and that students would be promoted to the next grade based on their past performance in quarterly and half-yearly examinations.
The schools advised students not to waste their time and instead revise their previous subjects and consult with their teachers, who would be available at their homes from 7:30am to 3:00pm on working days. The schools added that tests would be administered in the reopening week to examine the level of preparedness of students for the higher grade. Many schools were also forced to reschedule the dates for report cards and purchasing school supplies.
Last month, Kuwait’s Minister of Education and Higher Education Dr. Saud Al-Harbi had declared that examinations in public schools would be held immediately after Eid Al-Fitr, and indicated that there would be changes for the second semester date, as well as the start of the next academic year.
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