School week at Egypt’s Azhar educational institutes reduced over coronavirus fears

  • Date: 14-Oct-2020
  • Source: Ahram
  • Sector:Education
  • Country:Egypt
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School week at Egypt’s Azhar educational institutes reduced over coronavirus fears

Days of attendance at schools affiliated to Egypt's Al-Azhar have been reduced to keep pupils safe amid the coronavirus pandemic, as per recent regulations issued by the Al-Azhar Educational Institutes Sector on Wednesday, three days ahead of the onset of the new school year.

The new regulations allow Al-Azhar's students from first grade through to third grade to attend class in-person four days a week, while pupils from the fourth grade all the way to the third secondary school will attend school for only two days a week.

Al-Azhar's recent announcement represents a backtrack on the previous plan of allowing high-density schools to receive students five days a week and low-density schools to receive them three days a week.

The new regulations aim at reducing the density at