His Excellency Humaid
Mohammad Al Qutami, Minister of Education, praised the efforts of the team of
the Ministry of Higher Education And Scientific Research which participated in
the process of unification of the academic calendar, and made a sincere effort
and participated in the resolution issued by the Ministry of Education
concerning the unification of the academic calendar and the admission and
registration for the next academic year 2014/2015, during the recent meeting of
the Education Coordination and Integration Council.
The participation of
the Ministry of Higher Education And Scientific Research in this resolution is
in line with its policy and upon the directives of the Minister his Excellency
Sheikh Hamdan Bin Mubarak Al Nahyan to achieve global competitiveness; the
Ministry is keen on achieving leading positions in global assessment indicators,
to achieve the objectives of the national
agenda and the main objective of the UAE Vision 2021, which is to provide a
first-class education with empowerment of citizens with the tools of the future
as appropriate with the aspirations of UAE in achieving advanced rakings internationally.
The adoption of the recent
school calendar came under the direction of the Ministerial Council for Services,
in the light of the need for unification of holidays and weekdays between general
and higher education, to achieve family stability, the adoption of the resolution came in
the context of discussions and consultations held in intensive meetings between
the specialized commissions, officials and specialists in the education boards
and bodies, where they stressed the importance of the continuing unification of
vacations, where 10 days were added to the school year, in line with global
rates, at the same time, in line with
international foreign curricula associated with the number of hours of
instruction, in turn, the first semester holiday had been cut to be two weeks
rather than three weeks, so the total school days in the first semester are 74
days and 60 days in the second semester, while in the third and final semester
55 days, including emergency leave and examination days.
His Excellency
Humaid Al Qutami reiterated that the Council is a unique case of concerted
efforts and opens unlimited horizons for fruitful cooperation between all the
parties of the educational process and those responsible for it, the policies and objectives of the
Council represent a common vision for the development of the quality of public
and private education. They also
discussed a range of topics and important initiatives on the agenda of the
Council.
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