(MENAFN- Jordan News Agency) Some 8,000 new Syrian refugee pupils are enrolled in government schools in Mafraq, joining tens of thousands of Jordanian peers in schools in the northern district as the new academic year starts in the Kingdom Sept. 1, according to Mafraq Education Department Director Ahmad Al Khalidi.
Khalidi said a total of 43,000 students, including 35,000 Jordanians, are this year enrolled in 168 public schools as well as 38 private schools and kindergartens across the district close to the Syrian border.
He said newly-constructed schools, that significantly reduced the number of chartered schools, as well the department's redistribution and adjustment of school and classroom capacity had prompted educators to cancel the two-shift school system in all the region's schools before schools open on Tuesday.
Parents in the district had asked the government to build more schools to accommodate the rising number of students, complaining that the chartered buildings, 32 in total, are poorly equipped and lacked the necessary facilities to receive students.
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