Over 7mln students return back to Saudi schools and universities

Over 7mln students return back to Saudi schools and universities

RIYADH — More than six million male and female students from all phases of public education returned back to their schools on the first day of the new academic year on Sunday. They were joined by about 1,360,000 students from universities and technical and vocational training institutions as well as from special education and continuous education institutes in all regions and governorates across Saudi Arabia.

Last Sunday, more than half a million male and female teachers as well as admin istrative staff and supervisors resumed their duty as more than 28,000 schools and higher educational institutions across the Kingdom opened their doors at the end of 51-day long summer vacation.

The Ministry of Education and the Technical and Vocational Training Corporation (TVTC) had completed all their preparations in public, private and foreign education schools and other educatioinal institutions for the academic year since an early stage, the Saudi Press Agency reported. This is through integrating with education departments all over the Kingdom in accordance with a strategic plan to get schools ready prior to the return of students.

As part of this, the ministerial field teams worked, with the support of school readiness committees in education departments, to provide the necessary requirements of