The Ministry of Schooling has authorised obligatory tips for educating Arabic language, Islamic Research and Social Research in kindergarten lessons throughout all personal faculties within the UAE.
The brand new necessities will take impact from the 2025/2026 tutorial 12 months and apply to each personal college within the nation, no matter curriculum.
The initiative targets strengthening nationwide values amongst kids from kindergarten age, with the purpose of creating a era that demonstrates pleasure in nationwide identification, proficiency in Arabic and understanding of UAE household, social and environmental values, the Emirates Information Company (WAM) mentioned in a assertion.
UAE personal faculties face new necessities for Arabic, Islamic Research educating
The Ministry said the rules align with its imaginative and prescient of enhancing nationwide identification by means of early training.
Officers emphasised the dedication to creating programmes that construct kids’s studying, writing and nationwide identification abilities from the inspiration years to assist later instructional improvement.
Personal faculties will obtain tutorial frameworks and studying outcomes for all three topics earlier than the 2025/2026 tutorial 12 months begins. The Ministry will conduct advisory visits to colleges throughout the preliminary implementation part.
Common inspections will start within the 2026/2027 tutorial 12 months, carried out in partnership with native instructional authorities to confirm compliance with the rules.
Arabic language instruction will probably be obligatory for all college students, beginning with 200 minutes weekly (40 minutes each day) in 2025/2026. It will enhance to 300 minutes weekly (60 minutes each day) by 2027/2028.
Certified early childhood academics will ship Arabic classes utilizing authorised instructional sources and age-appropriate strategies designed for each native and non-native audio system.
In the meantime, all Muslim college students in kindergarten will obtain Islamic Research instruction for 90 minutes per week. Colleges can construction this as both three 30-minute classes or two 45-minute classes weekly.
Personal faculties should additionally incorporate ideas overlaying household, UAE geography, UAE surroundings, social values and key social subjects into kindergarten training.
The Ministry specified these ideas ought to be introduced by means of simplified, play-based studying approaches built-in into each day routines each inside and outdoors lecture rooms.
