{"id":11618,"date":"2023-01-18T04:03:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T04:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onecitizendaily.com\/?p=11618"},"modified":"2023-01-17T19:44:07","modified_gmt":"2023-01-17T19:44:07","slug":"education-ministry-reverts-to-old-academic-calendar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/18\/education-ministry-reverts-to-old-academic-calendar\/","title":{"rendered":"Education ministry reverts to old academic Calendar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Mary Poni<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The National Ministry of General Education and Instructions has decided to revert to the old academic calendar, pre-Covid 19 that operated from February to December 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The undersecretary in the Ministry of General Education and Instruction, Kuyok Abol Kuyok in a circular addressed to all Director Generals (D.G) in the Ministry yesterday directed that (D.Gs) that the new academic year will commence on Monday 6<sup>th<\/sup> February and ends on Friday 22 December 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou are urged to make public announcements across all the counties of the States including the administrative areas,\u201d he told the director generals in his letter issued on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kuyok added that \u201cthe national ministry will serve you (DGs) with copies of the calendar to disseminate to the schools\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He further stated that the ministry will close schools a week for the conduct of the examinations of the Primary Leaving Certificates (PLC) and two weeks for the Secondary Education Certificate (SEC) respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Undersecretary Abol noted that it is important that the schools adhere to the calendar and any school found in its breach will be panelized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe expect you to conduct back to learning campaigns in your state and administrative areas. If you have any queries, do not hesitate to contact us,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mary Poni The National Ministry of General Education and Instructions has decided to revert to the old academic calendar, pre-Covid 19 that operated from February to December 2023. The undersecretary in the Ministry of General Education and Instruction, Kuyok Abol Kuyok in a circular addressed to all Director Generals<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/18\/education-ministry-reverts-to-old-academic-calendar\/\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11619,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11618\/revisions\/11619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}