‘Education’ decides to organize work schedules for all educational levels

Kindergarten classes to start on Sept 1 Film to commemorate late Abdulreda to be released

Assistant Secretary-General for Administrative Affairs with Director-General of service department at Kuwait University taking a field tour of Sabah Al-Salem University

in Shadadiya.

KUWAIT CITY, Aug 6: Ministry of Education has adopted a decision to organize the work schedules for all education levels including kindergarten, and determine the start and end of the first semester, midyear vacation and summer vacation for the next academic year 2018/2019. The ministry also set the dates for the beginning of the 2019/2020 academic year, reports AlShahed daily.

It explained that the opening day for kindergarten schools in the 2018/2019 academic year will be Sept 4, for elementary level on Sept 2 and 3, intermediate schools on Sept 3 and for high schools on Sept 9.

The work for all staff members in the kindergarten, elementary and intermediate levels will start on Aug 28, while all high school teachers will resume work on Sept 2.

The mid-year school holidays for all levels will be from Jan 13 to Jan 24, 2019. The summer vacation for teaching and administration staff members of kindergarten KUWAIT CITY, Aug 6: In memory of the late ‘giant’ — Kuwaiti artist Abdul Hussein AbdulReda, Al-Arabia Channel will broadcast next Monday the first part of the documentary film entitled, “This is Hassinoh,” which was filmed at the Al-Arabiya TV Office in Kuwait, reports Al-Anba daily.

Many top artists took part in the film including Saad Al-Faraj, Hayat Al-Fahad and Nasser Al-Qasabi; in addition to the family of the late Abdul Hussein.

Speaking to the daily, Director of the film Doaa Ashqr disclosed that Al-Arabia News Channel produced the documentary to commemorate the giant artist.

He explained the film will not only depict the life of the late Abdul Hussein as it will also focus on Kuwait’s social, political, artistic and economic history.

This is in addition to the most important events in Arab countries which affected Abdul Hussein and his art such as the October War, Palestine setback, triple aggression and invasion of Kuwait among others, the director concluded.

Meanwhile, Kuwaiti Plastic Artist Mai Al-Nouri recently held an exhibition with the theme, “Woman’s Dream,” in the capital of Poland — Warsaw, reports Al-Shahid daily. Visitors and plastic art enthusiasts praised the works of Al-Nouri, especially since she highlighted the common suffering of women all over the world.

In the exhibition, which was launched on Aug 2 and will continue for one month; Al-Nouri showcased her capabilities and vivacity in Kuwaiti art in particular and plastic art in general.

Abdulreda

schools will start on June 13, 2019, and for teachers of elementary and intermediate levels, except for those marking examinations, will start on June 24, 2019.

The summer vacation for teachers in secondary level, except for those who are marking examinations, will start on July 4, 2019.

The high school principals, their deputies, secretariat and students affairs will go on summer vacation on July 9. The technical guides of various academic levels and laboratory supervisors in all educational zones will start their vacation on July 8.

The ministry has set Aug 27, 2019 as the beginning of work for the teachers in kindergarten, elementary and intermediate schools for 2019/2020 academic year. The teachers in high schools will resume duty on Sept 1, 2019.

Kindergarten students will start classes on Sept 1, elementary and intermediate students on Sept 2, and high school students on Sept 9.

KUWAIT CITY, Aug 6: Concurrently with the requests submitted by Deputy National Assembly Speaker Essa Al-Kandari and a number of MPs for urging His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah to issue amnesty for those convicted in the case of storming of the National Assembly building, parliamentary sources supported the call of MP Ahmed Al-Fadhel for those convicted in the case to apologize for the actions they committed before calling for amnesty.

MP Al-Fadhel highlighted two aspects in his criticism over the calls for amnesty.

The first aspect is that those who submitted the request for amnesty did not include the convicted individuals in similar lawsuits related to the political movement such as those convicted in the storming of Al-Watan TV building and Andalus Police Station as well as those arrested for participating in demonstrations.

The amnesty request does not include those convicted in lighter crimes such as posting controversial messages on Twitter and other social networking websites but without carrying out any violent acts.

The second aspect, according to Al-Fadhel, is that the amnesty should be preceded by repentance and apology by those convicted for the crimes they committed, and submission to the court verdicts in line with the Constitution, which the convicted had taken oath to respect.

Parliamentary sources said amnesty is not supposed to be requested in this way, indicating that the convicted should first start executing the court verdicts.

They added that, after the court verdicts are accepted, the MPs and political leaders can seek amnesty via legal courses.