September 24, 2024

Preparations for new academic year completed, says Education Ministry

Amman: The Ministry of Education has completed its preparations for the new academic year 2024-2025 and the procedures related to receiving students on Sunday, marking the start of the new academic year.

The Ministry’s Secretary General for Administrative and Financial Affairs, Sahar Al-Shakhaterah, said that the educational cadres started their work on Sunday in the ministry’s schools across the Kingdom, noting that the procedures for receiving students have been completed in terms of supplying books and distributing classrooms and educational cadres to schools.

Al-Shakhaterah told the Jordan News Agency (Petra) that the ministry has completed the appointment of nearly 3,000 male and female teachers, who hold Higher Diploma in Teacher Preparation, as well as 905 teachers on the BTEC program, noting that the ministry will determine the number of students transferring from private to public schools and vice versa after the end of the two-week transfer period since the start of the academic year.

She confirm
ed that the number of new schools expected to be handed over in the coming days amounted to 20 across various governorates, while schools that floated tenders to add classrooms amounted to 24 at a total cost of JD6 million, and the number of maintenance tenders amounted to 371, covering 473 schools across the Kingdom at a total cost of JD15 million.

She added that books will be delivered no later than August 25 and that all schools have been equipped with school furniture.

Private school students start their schools on September 1, while the teaching staff will start on August 25, according to the school calendar for the academic year 2024-2025.

Source: Jordan News Agency