The Abu Dhabi Department of Education and Knowledge (Adek) has said that it will impose a fine up to AED 250,000 on private schools that fail to submit daily COVID-19 reports to education regulators in the emirate when educational institutions will return to physical learning from Sunday, August 29.
The authorities had earlier advised schools to adhere to the guidelines and social distancing while ordering that the vaccination was necessary for the staff and students as well.
ADEK warned that fines for non-compliance violations will range from AED 10,000 to AED 250,000.
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Prior to the school reopening, ADEK has carried out more than 200 compliance inspection visits to private and charter schools across the emirate to ensure their readiness for the in-class education for academic year 2021-22.
The government agency’s health and safety team conducted inspection visits to 221 schools which also received a ‘No Objection Certificate’ (NOC) to reopen in the course of two weeks.
The emirate’s private and charter schools were advised to comply with the mandatory adherence to a comprehensive health and safety compliance checklist in order to obtain an NOC permitting their reopening.
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Those schools which failed to meet the compliance protocols were given three days to rectify areas of non-compliance before being visited again by Adek’s health and safety team and were offered three opportunities to establish readiness.
Adek said in a statement, “ Had any school failed their third compliance inspection, they would have been denied the option to reopen for face-to-face learning, and been required to return school fees to parents who could have opted to transfer their children to an alternative school.” (AW)
