Financial support for high school and high school students

The Minister of Education and Higher Education of the interim government, Tariq Al-Majzoub, announced that: “This Friday morning, we held a meeting led by the Prime Minister and attended by several ministers, and discussed health and education issues. the most important topics are ways to support stationery and textbooks. “

He continued: “We have obtained financial support, which is a financial grant that will be distributed to all students in public and private schools, high schools and colleges.”

He noted that “the financial grant mechanism will be issued during the next week, and there is nothing wrong with remembering that an amount of 8.1 million dollars has been spent on the price of the platform to support school funds and official averages.”

He said: “An additional amount of more than $ 6 million is being worked on for schools and high schools, both public and private, which will also be spent on the price of the platform, and this is the beginning of extending a hand to the official sector to face the multiple difficulties that the country is going through. “

Al-Majzoub recalled that “it is mandatory to completely close all public and private educational institutions before the date of October 12, 2020, and that next week the health situation will be evaluated through the Committee for the Monitoring of Preventive Measures and Coronavirus measures, and then a mechanism for a gradual return to teaching will be announced. “