The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has ceased admissions to governmental and local schools for Syrian and Yemeni students who entered the Kingdom as visitor or family member, Syria residents said.
The Ministry of Education and Teaching in Saudi Arabia had three months ago issued a circular that the Ministry had enough number of Syrian and Yemeni students of visit visa, and admission would only be granted for who have valid residency in the kingdom in future.
A Syrian resident in Saudi Arabia talked to Zaman al-Wasl on condition of anonymity explained that many Syrians and Yemeni would be negatively affected, as their countries suffer of war conditions, which forced many residents to bring their families to stay as visitors, and many of their children would become in school age next year.
He detailed that his relatives were not able to find a place for their children in Saudi schools, which forced them to wait till the second semester.
The speaker expressed that the Saudi government is planning to prevent Syrians and Yemeni from registering their children even in private schools as a mean to tight the noose on them.
The Syrian resident explained that another decision would become in force next year, charging 100 Saudi riyal for each non-local child per year. That decision forces many families to send their children to their home countries, but that option is not available for Syrians, therefore, many activists appealed to Saudi Arabia government via social media to withdraw that decision.
The Ministry of Education and Teaching has June 19, 2016 declared that they would admit Syrian and Yemeni Students of both genders who enter the country on visit visa in the governmental and Local schools due to the difficult circumstances in their countries. The Ministry mentioned that it had admitted 14,861 Syrian students, and 257,033 Yemeni since implementing the decision, 5 years ago for Syrians and two years for Yemeni.
