News 24 | The Minister of “Education” issues a circular “preventive protocols” for the return of education in presence

Today (Saturday), Education Minister Dr Hamad Al-Sheikh issued a circular to universities, the Technical and Vocational Training Society, education departments and various sectors of the ministry. About the preventive protocols linked to the return of education in person, which have been flagged by “Prevention”, in order to work according to them, and to follow their implementation by all the different sectors of education and training , government and private.

The declared protocols included; The Preventive Guideline for Back to School in Light of the Corona Pandemic, and the Mechanism for Handling Confirmed and Suspected Cases in Schools, as well as the Guideline for Returning Students and Educational Staff to Schools higher education institutions and the General Organization of Technical Education and Vocational Training.

The circular specifies the following:

first of all: Require that all male and female students aged (12) years and over, at all levels of education, be immunized with two doses of the vaccine for attending educational institutions.

Secondly: Restriction that students of university education and training who have not completed the two-dose vaccination will not be allowed to attend, and their registration will be suspended and they will be considered absent until the second dose has been completed.

Third: General education students who have completed (12) Gregorian years are required to obtain two doses to attend educational institutions, and those who cannot be immunized with two doses will be considered absent until the end of the two-dose vaccination.

Fourth : Implement the updated rules of conduct and attendance for middle and high school students approved by the Ministry on public and private education students, and enforce the study and examination regulations for university level , which was approved by the High Commissioner by resolution N ° (7 / B / 45888) of 23/11/1423 AH for students of governmental and private university education, and the basic regulations for training and l evaluation of the Technical and Vocational Training Company published by the decision of the Board of Directors of the Company no. (111) of 15/8/1441 AH for trainees in public and private colleges and institutes.

Fifth: Emphasizing that the responsibility is shared by all, which includes first of all university presidents, governors and directors of education, then those who are followed in the responsibility of deputies, assistants, deans, heads of departments, members of the teaching and training staff, teachers and employees, according to the organizational and administrative hierarchy, each in their own name.

It came in the context of it; Emphasis is placed on greater caution and monitoring of two doses for all education and training employees, students, to ensure their safety and that of their families.