Prime Minister Jaafar Hassan inaugurated, ahead of chairing a Cabinet session in Irbid Governorate on Sunday, the Maru Secondary School for Girls in the Qasabat Irbid District. The school was implemented as part of the government’s social responsibility initiative launched last year with support from private sector institutions.
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The Prime Minister praised the initiative by the Jordan Banks Association, which established 19 schools during the first phase of the social responsibility project. The program aims to build 100 new schools across the Kingdom over the next two years.
During a tour of the new school building—accompanied by Minister of Education, Higher Education and Scientific Research Azmi Mahafzah and Chairman of the Jordan Banks Association Bassem Al Salem—Hassan reviewed facilities that include classrooms designed to accommodate student numbers and ensure proper spacing, teachers’ rooms, kindergarten classes, and laboratories built to international and environmentally friendly standards. The school also caters to students with disabilities and includes a theater and sports field to support extracurricular activities. It has a capacity of around 500 students.
In a related context, the Ministry of Education has received six new schools—including Maru Secondary School for Girls—as part of the first phase of the project, with three scheduled to begin teaching at the start of the next academic year.
Work is ongoing to complete 11 additional schools, which are expected to be delivered before the next academic year begins, while studies and designs are underway for two more schools to be delivered early next March.
The second phase of the social responsibility project includes the construction of 19 new schools across various governorates, with engineering designs currently in preparation.
These schools are part of broader government efforts to advance the education sector. They aim to address key challenges such as eliminating rented school buildings, reducing classroom overcrowding and double-shift systems, expanding vocational education, and serving new residential areas in line with urban growth.
As part of the government’s education development plans, the new schools will include kindergartens. In addition, the first phase of a free government school transportation project will be launched at the beginning of the next academic year in the southern Badia, with gradual expansion planned to cover all governorates across Jordan.
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