Cairo: Owners of 186 staff agreed to halve their tuition rates in the first half of the new educational year, Saudi news firm SPA reported.
The movement through schools in the Tabuk region of northern Saudi Arabia will gain advantages for 30,000 academics and save 90 million Saudi riyals for their parents, according to a school official.
This step follows an initiative introduced through Tabuk’s Education Directorate to help mitigate the economic effect of COVID-19.
“This initiative strengthens the national duty of personal and foreign school owners as kindergartens to their country,” said Ebrahim Al Omari, Director General of tabuk’s Directorate-General for Education.
Earlier this week, Saudi Education Minister Hamad Al Sheikh said the first seven weeks of the new school year, on 30 August, will feature distance education systems as a component of the kingdom’s efforts to stop the spread of the new coronavirus.
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