Damascus-Sana
Tomorrow, more than 13 thousand schools will open their doors with the start of the 2020-2021 academic year to receive about 3 million and 800 thousand students and students in various governorates.
According to the Ministry of Education figures, which SANA received a copy of today, 3735521 male and female students from various educational levels will go to 13,280 schools tomorrow.
On August 20, the Ministry of Education issued a health protocol to return to schools in preparation for the start of the new school year in accordance with the requirements to maintain the level of education in Syria while ensuring the health and safety of pupils, students and workers in the educational field in light of the precautionary measures to confront the outbreak of the Coronavirus.
During the past period, the Ministry of Education, through its directorates in the governorates, has implemented many measures in preparation for the new school year in accordance with the approved protocol, including sterilization of entire school buildings, including floors, walls, windows, stairs, bathrooms, seats, doors, drawers, desks and tables with extended sodium hypochloride, in addition to continuing work to secure a thermometer. A letter for each school.
The health standards and conditions that must be met in school canteens have been defined in terms of their location, the mechanism of sterilization, and the food items allowed to be sold within them, the factors related to the workers of the canteen and their commitment to wearing masks and gloves.
The school environment was prepared according to the ministry and the education directors in the governorates were granted the authority to address emergency health conditions to secure a safe and healthy environment for students and administrative and educational frameworks in addition to directing the directorates to address classroom density in schools by distributing students to nearby and geographically contiguous schools and investing administrative rooms by converting them into classrooms and expanding By applying the mid-time.
In order to secure the necessary human frameworks, the Ministry allowed the successful commissioning of the competition for fixing agents directly from outside the owners pending completion of the procedures for their appointment and assigning the successful candidates to the first category contract competition to teach directly from outside the owners according to the sequence of degrees of success and the possibility of appointment, which number 15000.
The Ministry worked to take some measures for pupils and students with chronic diseases in terms of their identification, and students with them must submit a medical report from the treating specialist doctor through which they are allowed to attend school during the spread of the Coronavirus.
On the other hand, the Ministry of School Health Directorate, in cooperation with the Communicable Diseases Directorate in the Ministry of Health and the supervision of the World Health Organization, has carried out since the first of September, training sessions on the approved health protocol for returning to schools for a team of 160 school health doctors from all governorates, and they were named trainers. TOT to train health supervisors in charge of schools in their governorates.
On the 23rd of last August, the Cabinet in charge of conducting business decided to open schools on the 13th of September, after reviewing the health protocol submitted by the Ministry of Education to address the Corona epidemic during the new school year.
Rehab Ali