CAIRO (Reuters) – College students at Saudi Arabia’s public faculties will seemingly be skilled by functionality of distance learning as a precaution in opposition to coronavirus for the primary seven weeks of the contemporary time period, which begins on Aug. 30, the minister of teaching talked about on Saturday.
During that time the catastrophe for the rest of the time period will seemingly be evaluated, Dr. Hamad bin Mohammed Al Shaikh talked about in remarks carried on boom-bustle al-Ekhbariya TV.
School and technical faculties will seemingly be on-line for theory-essentially based mostly curriculums and in particular person for practical curriculums, he added.
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) launched that people might perchance perchance be in a growth to decide whether or not their children wait on courses in particular person or on-line for the primary time period, which begins on Aug. 30, growth recordsdata company WAM talked about.
“Cautious plans had been connect in location to ensure a unhurried return to experiences in the entire nation’s faculties with out exception, and for all ranges of teaching,” it talked about.
Saudi Arabia has seen larger than 297,000 instances of coronavirus, whereas the UAE has over 64,000.
Reporting by Nayera Abdallah and Omar Fahmy, writing by Nafisa Eltahir; Enhancing by Alison Williams and Giles Elgood
