DOHA: Six new Independent Schools will open during the academic year 2013-2014, an Arabic newspaper reported yesterday. The schools will be located in the following areas: Al Duhail, New Rayyan, Abu Sidra (which will have two schools), Meiether and Um Salal Ali.
The Supre Education Council (SEC) also announced recently that the first Spanish school in Qatar is set to open in September, as part of Qatar’s Outstanding Schools Initiative.
Based in West Bay, the school belongs to SEK International Schools and English will be its official language of instruction, with emphasis on developing students’ fluency in both Spanish and Arabic.
Study in the SEK School in Qatar will be limited to the primary stage in its first year and starting from pre-kindergarten stage up to the sixth primary class.
The school will start by enrolling 180 students and will gradually expand by adding more stages each year so as to enroll a total number of 460 students in academic 2014-2015.
The number of students will increase to be not less than 600 students in academic 2016-2017.
SEC in a recent circular has banned private schools from enrolling children aged above four years in the kindergarten and preparatory classes.
School operators say that the decision has come at a time when they are busy finalising preparations for the new academic year which begins in September.
Accordingly, enrollment age for KG students has been fixed as three years and for preparatory (KG2) students as four years. Schools are not permitted to enroll children above four years in the KG/preparatory classes.The Peninsula
