the Ministry of Education Mandatory instructions are agreed for teaching Arabic language, Islamic and social studies study of kindergarten classes in all private schools in UAE.
The new requirements to be implemented from yearly academic at 2025/2026 and apply to each country’s private school, regardless of the curriculum.
Target initiatives that strengthen national values among children from kindergarten, with the intention of developing a generation of familiarity, arabic and environmental values, Emirates News Agency (WAM) said to a statement.
Private UAE schools face new requirements for Arabic, teaching Islamic studies
The ministry says instructions in accordance with this view of the development of national identification through early education.
Officials emphasize the development of programs that build children reading, writing national identity from the foundation years to support late education development.
Private schools receive instructions to frameworks and learning results for all three subjects before starting the Academic year of 2025/2026. The ministry will conduct visitors to school advisory during the initial implementation period.
Regular inspects begin in the Academic year 2026/2027, made with the partnership of local educational authorities to determine following the instructions.
Arabic language instruction should be mandatory for all students, starting 200 minutes per week (40 minutes daily) at 2025/2026. It will raise 300 minutes per week (60 minutes per day) at 2027/2028.
Eligible childhood teachers provide Arabic lessons using approved educational resources and methods designed for native indigenous.
Meanwhile, all kindergarten Muslim students will receive Islamic study in 90 minutes per week. Schools can structure it as three 30-minute sessions or two minute week sessions per week.
Private schools should also include concepts that make up family, Geography of the UAE, UAE environment, social values and principal subjects in competence in society.
The ministry that determines these concepts should be presented by simplified, play-based method combined with daily routines within and outside classrooms.
