AMMAN — The 2022–2023 scholastic year will start
in about a week, and 10,000 students are still on waiting lists,
Secretary-General of the Ministry of Education for Administrative and Financial
Affairs
Najwa Qabilat said.
According to Qabilat, 7,500 students have moved from
private to public schools so far, with the “numbers changing daily during this
week”.
To accommodate those on waiting list, Qabilat said
that the ministry may resort to the evening shift.
Starting August 31, Qabilat said, 1,634,582 students
will start attending public schools, including those whose transfer was
accepted. The Kingdom currently has 4,005 public schools.
Of these, 13 new
schools, with a total of 210 classrooms, were added in July, while in December,
the ministry will acquire 26 new school buildings, which will bring the total
of new classrooms this academic year to 904, accommodating about 30,000
students, Qabilat said.
The ministry and its directorates in the
governorates are working to secure all students in schools, and to determine
which schools will operate in shifts to accommodate students on the waiting
list, Qabilat added.
Director of Education in the Tafileh region Lubna
Al-Hajjaj told
Jordan News that the directorate is able to absorb all
students this year, as each school in Tafileh has some 5 or 6 students on the
waiting lists, a number which is easier to accommodate.
According to Hajjaj, Al-Nuwairi School, a new
educational institution built with
USAID funding, will take in students who
used to attend two rented schools, and students who transferred from private
schools and students on waiting lists, helping to reduce overcrowding in public
schools in Tafileh.
Hajjaj said that 22,800 students have enrolled in
the 90 public schools in Tafileh Governorate so far this year.
Mohammad
Al-Momani, director of one of Irbid’s educational districts, told
Jordan
News that the number of students on waiting lists in his district changes
daily. So far, about 1,100 students who moved from private to public schools
this year have been accepted, and there are some 1,600 students on waiting
lists.
Momani added that the directorate will exert all
efforts to enroll all students who required public schools, and are included,
where needed, by activating the shift system.
Irbid is the second largest city in the Kingdom. Its
208 public schools accommodate 124,000 students.
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