— The government and Arabic private schools across Kuwait will resume welcoming their students in various stages of the schooling year 2021-2022 tomorrow, Sunday, after 18-month hiatus.

The resumption follows putting in place the necessary health precautions to protect the students against the risks of the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, Assistant Secretary of the Ministry of Education Dr. Abdulmohsen Al-Howaila said on Saturday.

“At the behest of Minster of Education Dr. Ali Al-Modhaf, the ministry made all arrangements to ensure the high quality and smoothness of the educational process in the new schooling year,” Dr. Al-Howaila told KUNA.

“The ministry spares no effort in providing a proper environment for an orderly educational process and worked out a strategy that covers the administrative, technical and operational aspects of the process,” he affirmed.

A statistical chart, recently posted on the ministry’s website, put the overall number of schools in Kuwait at 1,146, including 985 public schools and 161 private ones; or 85.95 and 14.05 percent, respectively.

The number of school students hit 522,220 – males and females, including 439,365 – or 84.13 percent of the overall, at government schools, and 82,855 – or 15.87 percent, at Arabic private schools.

Source: Kuwait News Agency