Education Ministry announces school hours for Ramadan
The education ministry said local educational institutes are to conclude daily sessions by 15:00
Students of a public school in Malé at an academic-year inauguration ceremony
The Ministry of Education on Monday announced that local schools will only have sessions for about five hours during Ramadan, as it does every year ahead of the Muslim month of fasting.
According to the ministry’s circular, students in grades 11-12 will have four hours of study time in total, while students in grades 8-10 will have a total of three hours.
The ministry has limited session time for primary-grade students, in grades one to seven, to two hours and thirty minutes at most. Students younger than this are to be given sessions that are short, but not less than an hour and thirty minutes.
The education ministry has also said that schools will finish their daily sessions by 15:00. Morning sessions can start at any time between 08:40 and 09:00 and afternoon sessions will only be held from 11:30 to 13:00.
Registered educators and public schools have also been instructed to ensure that the parts of their syllabuses taught during Ramadan is completed within a period of two weeks, and that schools will have to prepare special programs to cater to this.
Ramadan, the ninth month in the Hijri calendar, is deemed to fall on 16th of May.
