Days of attendance at schools affiliated to Egypt's Al-Azhar
have been reduced to keep pupils safe amid the coronavirus pandemic, as per
recent regulations issued by the Al-Azhar Educational Institutes Sector on
Wednesday, three days ahead of the onset of the new school year.
The new regulations allow Al-Azhar's students from first grade through to third grade to attend class in-person four days a week, while pupils from the fourth grade all the way to the third secondary school will attend school for only two days a week.
Al-Azhar's recent announcement represents a backtrack on the previous plan of allowing high-density schools to receive students five days a week and low-density schools to receive them three days a week.
The new regulations aim at reducing the density at classrooms amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to a source reported by Al-Ahram Arabic news website. Under the new regulations, all educational institutes are required to adhere to all precautionary measures to curtail the spread of the deadly virus, the source added.
Source: Ahram Online
