Moe Reduces Tuition Fees by 25% for 2020-21 School Year

THULHIJJA 9, 1441 AH THURSDAY, JULY 30, 2020 16 Pages Max 50º Min 34º 150 Fils Established 1961 ISSUE NO: 18195 The First Daily in the Arabian Gulf www.kuwaittimes.net Crown Prince meets members In Kashmir, the hills are alive UAE’s emerging hip hop Hole in none: How screen golf 2 of National Assembly office 7 with the sound of schooling 13 scene searches for identity 13 got serious in South Korea MoE reduces tuition fees by 25% for 2020-21 school year Ministry cancels fees due after Feb 26 for students of private Arabic schools for 2019-2020 KUWAIT: Education Minister Saud Huwailah to issue further regulations studies and complete the second term started preparing the online education NOTICE Al-Harbi yesterday issued a ministerial under this resolution, including ones for all school stages. Notably, private program for grade 12 students due to resolution reducing tuition fees for the related to online education, e-platforms, schools were excluded from an educa- start on Aug 9, noting that the plan Eid Mubarak to all our readers! Kuwait Times 2020-2021 school year by 25 percent assessment methods and study plans, tion ministry decision earlier this month includes online quizzes. The school day will not publish its print edition from July 31 to compared to the 2019-2020 academic and hold schools that violate the fee to end the 2019-2020 school year. will be of four hours - from 8:30 am till August 3. Readers can stay informed with year. The decision is effective from the reduction decision responsible. Parents had asked Huwailah to inter- 12:30 pm. breaking news, events and information via beginning of the new school year until Later yesterday, Harbi issued anoth- vene and prevent private schools from The sources added that the public KuwaitTimes.net and our digital media chan- students are allowed to return to er decision to cancel fees for the 2019- demanding full payment of fees for the education sector agreed on a mech- classes. 2020 academic year due after Feb 26, 2019-2020 academic year, but were anism to monitor students’ absence - nels on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook: Harbi stressed the need for private 2020 for students of private Arabic met with silence. Sources alleged the a student who fails to log in to the @KuwaitTimes schools to activate their online learning schools from kindergarten to grade 11. education ministry’s move to exclude portal for an entire week will lose platforms using virtual classes and vari- Schools that fail to comply with the new foreign and bilingual schools in its deci- one mark, while a decision on those ous e-learning resources from the decision face punitive measures as per sion to end the 2019-2020 school year who are absent for one or two days beginning of the 2020-2021 school year the ministry’s’ regulations, the ministry was made so that the schools do not will be up to the teachers. Moreover, News in brief until students are allowed back on cam- said in a statement. lose their right to demand full fees. the sources said the ministry is cur- puses. The minister also warned that Meanwhile, foreign private and bilin- Parents, however, argue that since rently considering offers it has Flights restart to 20 countries schools may not hike fees prior to pro- gual schools are continuing procedures schools were online-only from March received to reinforce communication viding the 25 percent discount until the to complete the 2019-2020 school year, 2020, they should not have to pay full networks in various schools, adding KUWAIT: The Directorate General of Civil end of the 2020-2021 academic year. with classes to resume online from Aug fees for the last school year. that teachers had already started Aviation (DGCA) announced Tuesday that air- Harbi also authorized his assistant 4, 2020, five days a week. A report in Meanwhile, unnamed educational training on using the program and lines operating at Kuwait International Airport undersecretary for private and qualita- Al-Anbaa daily said the schools have sources quoted by Al-Rai Arabic daily how to prepare assignments, meet- will start commercial flights to 20 countries from tive education affairs Abdul Mohsen Al- asked students and parents to resume said that the education ministry has ings and online tests. — Agencies Aug 1 - UAE, Bahrain, Oman, Lebanon, Qatar, Jordan, Egypt, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Ethiopia, the United Kingdom, Turkey, Iran, Nepal, Switzerland, Germany, Pilgrims begin Azerbaijan, the Philippines and India. — KUNA downsized hajj KIPIC starts operation of gas line amid pandemic DUBAI: Kuwait Integrated Petroleum Industries Co (KIPIC) has begun operating the MAKKAH: Mask-clad Muslim pilgrims yesterday gas line that will feed its long-delayed Al-Zour began the annual hajj, dramatically downsized this year as the Saudi hosts strive to prevent a coron- refinery, KUNA said on Tuesday. Originally avirus outbreak during the five-day pilgrimage. The planned more than a decade ago but repeatedly hajj, one of the five pillars of Islam and a must for delayed, Al-Zour will be the largest integrated able-bodied Muslims at least once in their lifetime, refinery and petrochemicals plant in Kuwait. Al- is usually one of the world’s largest religious gather- Zour’s production capacity is estimated at ings. But this year only up to 10,000 people already 615,000 barrels per day, increasing Kuwait’s residing in the kingdom will participate in the ritual, overall refining capacity to over 1.5 million bar- a tiny fraction of the 2.5 million pilgrims from rels a day. — Reuters around the world that attended last year. Pilgrims walked into Makkah’s Grand Mosque in batches to begin the ritual with their first “tawaf”, or Egypt executes 7 over killing walk around the Kaaba, a cube-shaped structure draped in gold-embroidered cloth towards which CAIRO: Egypt has executed seven people over Muslims around the world pray, state television the killing of a police officer in the northeastern showed. Pilgrims will be required to wear masks city of Ismailiya in 2013, a security official said and observe social distancing during a series of Tuesday. “The prison service on Tuesday car- religious rites that are completed over five days in ried out the sentence of death by hanging the holy city of Makkah and its surroundings in MAKKAH: Pilgrims circumambulate the Kaaba, Islam’s holiest shrine, at the center of the Grand Mosque in against seven people convicted of killing western Saudi Arabia. this holy city during the annual hajj pilgrimage. — AFP Captain Ahmad Abu Douma,” the security offi- Continued on Page 2 cial told AFP. Their bodies had been handed to their families, he added. — AFP Iran targets mock Yemen separatists Half of slum residents infected NEW DELHI: Over half the people living in US aircraft carrier abandon self-rule, the slums of Mumbai have had the coronavirus, according to a city-commissioned study in Gulf exercises push peace deal released Tuesday that raises fresh doubts about India’s official case numbers. Blood tests on TEHRAN: Iran’s Revolutionary Guards blasted a RIYADH: Yemeni separatists abandoned their decla- 6,936 randomly selected people conducted by mock-up of a US aircraft carrier with missiles yester- ration of self-rule in the south yesterday and pledged to implement a stalled Saudi-brokered peace deal, Mumbai’s city authorities found that 57 percent day during military exercises in sensitive Gulf waters, state television said. The exercises were held near the mending a rift between allies in the war against Houthi of slum-dwellers and 16 percent of non-slum rebels. The Southern Transitional Council (STC) pro- residents had virus antibodies. — AFP Strait of Hormuz, a vital shipping lane for a fifth of global oil output. They were staged at a time of This handout photo shows a mockup US aircraft car- claimed self-governance in April after accusing the heightened tensions between Iran and its decades-old rier encircled by Iranian speedboats during a mili- government of failing to perform its duties and of ‘Hunger will kill Lebanon kids’ arch enemy the United States. tary exercise near the Strait of Hormuz. -— AFP “conspiring” against the southern cause, pushing the Footage of the war games broadcast on state tele- war-ravaged country deeper into crisis. The breakdown between the one-time allies had vision showed the Guards’ air and naval forces ready- pelling onto the deck of the vessel, before around a BEIRUT: Close to a million people in Beirut can complicated a long and separate conflict between a ing for an attack off the country’s southwest coast. dozen speedboats circle around it. no longer afford basic necessities and children Saudi-led military coalition and the Iran-allied rebels, Speedboats skimmed across the water in formation “What was shown today in these exercises, at the are likely to starve to death this year, the charity who control much of the north, including the capital before ground forces fired cannons and a missile was level of aerospace and naval forces, was all offen- Sanaa. The STC “announces that it is abandoning its Save The Children said yesterday. The group launched from a helicopter. The mock-up of a Nimitz- sive,” Guards commander Major General Hossein self-rule declaration” to allow the implementation of a said 910,000 people, more than half of them class aircraft carrier came into view with rows of Salami told state television. The war games come children, in the Greater Beirut area no longer power-sharing deal known as the Riyadh Agreement, dummy fighter jets on either side of its landing strip.

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