Senate panel briefed on government work in education

By JT - Jan 14,2016 - Last updated at Jan 14,2016

AMMAN — The Senate Financial and Economic Committee on Thursday discussed education policies in the Kingdom in the presence of Deputy Prime Minister and Education Minister Mohammad Thneibat and Higher Education Minister Labib Khadra.

Thneibat said around 11,400 students were banned from sitting for the General Secondary Education Certificate Examination due to exceeding the allowed absence days at school and failing the school exam. The ministry merged 682 classes and closed 28 schools, which freed up 1,032 teachers, who were sent to schools suffering shortages, the minister added, according to the Jordan News Agency, Petra.

He noted that the ministry also inaugurated 254 kindergarten classrooms and provided 234 schools with an additional 3,458 classrooms during the past three years at a cost of JD400 million. Khadra said public and private universities have 298,000 students, 41,000 of whom are foreigners, noting that government support to public universities in 2015 reached JD57 million, Petra reported.

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