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The Ministry of Education announced the opening of registration for four study tracks within the integrated continuing education system for the academic year 2024-2025, which are the literacy track and the general academic track, and registration for them continues until Friday, October 25, 2024, and the home study and level determination track, and registration for it continues until Friday, November 15, and registration for the applied track will be opened in two periods: the first from October 1 to 31, and the second from January 6 to 31, 2025.
The Ministry of Education revealed that the literacy track focuses on males and females aged nine years and above who do not have basic language and arithmetic skills, and are not proficient in reading.
The programme accepts anyone who has exceeded the maximum age for admission to public and private education. The track covers grades one to six in two stages: the foundation stage and the supplementary stage.
The admission categories within this track include male and female citizens, children of female citizens, and wives of citizens.
The general academic track targets female citizens, female children of female citizens, and wives of male citizens who wish to complete their studies in grades seven to twelve. The track includes supporting female students with live, remote online lessons.
The home study track is a self-education program that benefits male and female citizens and residents who exceed the maximum age for admission to public or private education. It covers the stage from the seventh grade to the twelfth grade of the Ministry of Education curricula according to the general track.
Students in this track can take electronic exams according to the system determined by the Ministry, without being bound by attendance and regularity in study.
In turn, the applied track offers a vocational education programme for male students wishing to complete their studies in the eleventh grade (level three) and the twelfth grade (level four).
The applied track accepts male citizens and children of female citizens who have exceeded the maximum age for admission to public education. This track also allows students to move from the home-school track to the applied track.
The Ministry of Education has identified the general procedures for admission to the four tracks of integrated continuing education. These procedures include submitting a registration application through the Ministry of Education’s website, and the application must be filled out by the student or his guardian. The application must include choosing the track and center and providing the required documents. The Ministry’s work team will then study the application by the integrated continuing education coordinators and issue a decision regarding it to accept, reject, or request additional information.
The Ministry indicated that registration is free for three tracks: literacy, general academic track, and applied track, while the fees for the home study track have been set at 150 dirhams, to be paid according to the approved mechanism.
The Ministry of Education’s announcement also highlighted the need to authenticate academic certificates issued outside the UAE by the Ministry of Education, the UAE Embassy, ​​and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the country that issued the certificate. Students wishing to enroll in continuing education in grades 10, 11, and 12, and who have a certificate from outside the country, must submit an equivalency certificate issued by the Ministry of Education in the UAE.
As for academic certificates issued from countries where there is no UAE embassy, ​​students can have them authenticated by the consulate of the country that issued the certificate, along with attaching a letter from the same consulate, addressed to the Ministry of Education in the UAE confirming the accuracy of the data contained therein. A letter from one of the offices of the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs must also be attached.
Non-citizen students who hold certificates from outside the country and wish to register in the twelfth grade, and who dropped out of school in the year preceding registration or before, must bring proof that they did not obtain a high school diploma in their country, provided that the document is certified by the Ministry of Education in that country. Certificates or documents that do not include grades for subjects studied by the student in his/her country and indicate his/her success will not be accepted, even if they are duly certified. As for non-citizen students who hold certificates from a Gulf country, they must have their certificates authenticated by the UAE embassy in that country. As for citizens of the Gulf Cooperation Council countries, it is sufficient to have their certificates and academic documents authenticated by their countries.
Students wishing to benefit from one of the integrated continuing education paths can visit the Ministry of Education’s website to obtain more information, or contact the Ministry’s Customer Happiness Centers to answer their inquiries about this service.
