Education ministry reverses single-session schools policy
“Malé school buildings are old and lack space. We have added space with extensions as much as we can. As students increase each year, it’s getting harder to accommodate them. Even in case of an emergency, it would extremely hard to evacuate all students from the building,” said State Minister for Education Dr Abdulla Nazeer.
16 Dec 2015, 9:00 AM
Reversing the previous government’s single-session schools policy, the education ministry has decided to change public schools in Malé back to two sessions a day, citing lack of space and overcrowding.
State Minister for Education Dr Abdulla Nazeer told the press yesterday that the ministry has been discussing shifting schools back to double sessions for the past two months.
“Malé school buildings are old and lack space. We have added space with extensions as much as we can. As students increase each year, it’s getting harder to accommodate them. Even in case of an emergency, it would extremely hard to evacuate all students from the building,” he said.
Shifting all public schools to a single session was a key policy objective of the ousted Maldivian Democratic Party government.
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