Hundreds of Thousands of Students Complete Their School Year in Northeast Syria
Hundreds of Thousands of Students Complete Their School Year in Northeast Syria
The school cycle ended last week in the north and east of Syria, on the 15th of the current month. Hence, the schools of the Self-Administration will begin implementing its summer programs of teachers training on the advanced methods and ways of teaching.
The outcome
The number of students in the north and east of Syria this year was about 826,652 students, while the number of teachers was 42,250 in 5078 schools in all over the north and east of Syria.
However, Afrin was excluded from the students’ outcome of the Self-Administration’s school, after the armed opposition factions and the Turkish army had controlled the area and displaced its residents to Al-Shahba areas in the northern countryside of Aleppo.
“Despite the difficulties and the large numbers of students, the process of education during this year was generally positive.” Said Azad Barazi, the deputy of co-chair of the Commission of Education in the north and east of Syria, in a declare to North Press.
Summer programs
As for summer programs and plans, Barazi cleared that summer courses will be arranged in all areas of the Self-Administration to raise the level of education, and they are working on providing the schools with textbooks, and also communicating with international organizations , the ( UNICEF) and others, to help in providing the needs of the recently liberated areas.
“The Self-Administration curriculum is taught in the east of the Euphrates, which is the same curriculum that was taught in Afrin. While in Raqqa, Tabaqah and Manbej cities, the self-education curriculum, set by the UNICEF, is depended.
Moreover, in Deir Ez-Zur, the curriculum of the Syrian Government is taught with adding two subjects (the Community – the Life) and another book of (Ethics),” said Barazi in his talk about the school curriculum in the north and east areas of Syria.
A committee was formed to develop the curriculum in the Self-Administration areas in 2014, as a beginning, they started teaching the mother language to the first grade, then the curriculum of the second and third grades issued in 2015. In 2016-2017 the middle and high school curricula was completed.
Furthermore, the Self-Administration has provided a special curriculum to Kurds, Arabs and Assyrians in their control areas.
The Self-Administration in the north and east of Syria opened several universities, but the “demands for studying is relatively poor, in addition, these universities have not received yet any international recognition, which raises the concerns of students about their future.” According to observers.
Raqqa-Fayad Mohammed / Yahya Omar – NPA