Postponed exams for COVID-19 students kick off Sunday

Students who caught COVID-19 in Kuwait to write the postponed exams on Sunday, a week after schools reopened in the country, Al Jarida has reported.

Instructions have been made to schools to provide special classrooms amid health precautions to use them as exam boards for those students, it added.

The Education Ministry is still studying the possibility of revival schools’ return to full capacity to replace the current system that divides students’ attendance over two groups, the paper said, citing sources at the ministry.

“Officials have held several meetings in this regard,” the sources added, expecting a related decision next week.

A rotating class system has been in force in Kuwait since last October as part of precautions to curtail the spread of COVID-19.

On Sunday, thousands of students returned to classes in Kuwait for their second semester after the end of the mid-year holiday.