The ministry has finilised a new rule revoking the communities and the non-Arab diplomatic missions schools. The decision will be effective within the next few days after it is signed by the Minister of Education Dr. Hanif Hassan who is currently abroad.

A source at the ministry revealed to Khaleej Times that the new order would force the communities' schools and the diplomatic missions' institutions to rectify their status to comply with the UAE educational system and also to be considered as private schools.

The source said that the ministerial order will introduce amendments to the executive by-laws of the Federal Private Education Law No 28 of 1999. He disclosed that there will be an amendment in the clause No 3 of article 1 under which the definition of a community school as an institution applying a foreign syllabus and catering to non-Arab communities has been deleted.

Similarly Article No 11 will be deleted and it deals with the initial approval of ministry of education for the communities' schools and Non Arab diplomatic missions. Under the existing article, the embassy of the concerned state was required to issue an official letter addressed to MoE detailing the objectives of the school and the numbers of students of the community which have to be not less than 50 families in UAE .

Article 11 which will be deleted also states that the concerned embassy has to provide the ministry with an undertaking that it will financially and administratively run the school and it will have a representative of that schools to deal with the ministry.