Kuwait mulls earlier school start, Ramadan break adjustment
KUWAIT CITY, April 27: The Ministry of Education is considering an earlier start for the 2025/2026 academic year and plans to include the last ten days of Ramadan as part of the holidays, reports Al-Anba daily. According to educational sources, the ministry is currently working on the academic calendar in coordination with relevant authorities.
The plan is to have school administrations begin on September 1, with students returning to school on September 7. This adjustment is being considered to compensate for the holiday during the last ten days of Ramadan, a period the ministry is contemplating suspending. The goal is to allow students and teachers to focus on worship and to promote religious and social values during this special time. Meanwhile, the ministry announced that registration for educational supervisory positions is open from Sunday, April 27 to May 8. Interested individuals can apply through the Ministry of Education's website under the 'Electronic Services' section, specifically the 'Educational Supervisory Positions Services.' In another development, the acting Undersecretary of Public Education Affairs Mansour Al-Dhafiri announced changes to the dates and procedures for the examination control center for the end of the second semester of the 2024/2025 academic year for the twelfth grade, as per Ministerial Resolution No. 115/2025, issued on April 1.
Al-Dhafiri explained that the start period for the examination control center has been reduced by approximately 27 days compared to previous years. The start date for the control center for the science, arts, and religious education sections will now be Sunday, April 13, instead of the previous date of Sunday, March 16. The period from April 17 to April 24 was set for the printing and reviewing of twelfth-grade student transcripts by school administrations from the student record system. The period from May 11 to May 15 will be designated for conducting exams for subjects outside the schedule.
Grades will be recorded in the student's record, and grade sheets (including daily work, practical work, and exams for subjects outside the schedule) will be printed for review by the school. Vertical technical review sheets for subjects outside the schedule will also be issued and recorded in the school's student record system. On May 19, the student record system will be closed for entering or modifying grades for twelfth-grade students at the end of that day. On May 22, the seat numbers for twelfth-grade students applying for the General Secondary Education Examinations will be announced on the ministry's website. On May 26, the exam committee cards and roll call lists for twelfth-grade students applying for the General Secondary Education Examinations will be made available on the ministry's website by the end of that day.
Seat numbers for students applying for the second round of exams will be set on June 30. Al-Dhafiri confirmed that the exams for subjects outside the schedule (Quran, Constitution, and Human Rights) for home-schooled students will be standardized throughout the ministry. He stressed that if any of the unified tenth- and eleventhgrade certificates are unavailable, an equivalency certificate from the Private Education Department's Certificate Equivalency Department must be attached, irrespective of whether the student is studying outside Kuwait or transferred from private (foreign) schools. Also, a curriculum system certificate or the result of the equivalency exam for religious education certificates must be provided if the student is studying at home.
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