Schools open for new academic year

Schools across the Maldives opened today for the new academic year with more than 75,000 students enrolled in 223 schools.

Outlining key preparations for the new school year, Education Minister Dr Aishath Shiham said the new curriculum introduced in 2015 for grades one through three is being extended for grades four through six this year.

The new curriculum will prepare students to become “self-confident, patriotic, devout and aware of the challenges of a changing world,” she said.

All teachers at public schools have now achieved diploma level training, she said.