Jordan: Determining school hours for school students during the holy month of Ramadan

<p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><strong>Arab Weather</strong> - Today, Sunday, the Ministry of Education announced that students will work in schools during the holy month of Ramadan.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> According to the work schedule, the first lesson begins at eight in the morning in all schools, and the duration of the class session in schools with one period is 40 minutes, while the duration of the session in schools of both periods is 35 minutes.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> The first class begins in the evening at 12:30 pm.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> The Prime Minister, Dr. Bishr Al-Khasawneh, had decided in an official statement issued today, Sunday, to set the official working hours during the blessed month of Ramadan, from ten in the morning until three in the afternoon.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> According to the communication, the official working hours in all ministries, official departments, institutions, public bodies, official universities, municipalities, joint services councils, the Greater Amman Municipality, and government-owned companies, from the first of Ramadan, from ten in the morning until three in the afternoon , to return after the blessed month of Ramadan to what it is now.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> The notification excluded the employees of the departments whose official work nature requires otherwise, so that their working hours are according to administrative arrangements from the heads of their departments.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> The Prime Minister stressed on all institutions the need to preserve the sanctity of the holy month, and to take into account the feelings of fasting people.</p>