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New Academic year begins with over 93,000 students

The Academic Year 2022-2023 has begun with 93,278 students.

Ministry of Education has revealed commenced across the country in 271 schools with 76,000 attending 217 public schools staffed with over 8,300 teachers. In addition, 1,500 students had relocated to schools in Male' City, according to the education ministry.

Unlike previous years, the most noticeable difference at the start of the academic year is that all schools have the required number of teachers. The new academic year will start with 8,364 teachers which include 6,006 local teachers and 1,693 foreign teachers. There are no difficulties in recruiting teachers this year following the changes brought to the salary structure of teachers, according to the ministry.

The first term of the year will end in December, and the second term will begin on January 8, 2023, and end on June 22, 2023.