Schools readmit dropouts

Following the detection of such cases, DEZ has sought list of all students who had dropped out in the course of the academic year and were considered as having failed, from all private schools, with or without justifications.

DEZ regards students who discontinue studies for three months as having failed, and such students cannot appear for the final examinations at the end of the year. Students in Indian and Pakistani schools are not entitled to repeat the examination as per rules governing these schools, Mona Lootah, Sectional Head of Licences at DEZ, asserted.

Explaining the situation, she said students enrolled in these schools are not entitled to repeat the exam if he or she had failed in two compulsory subjects.

Khadiyjja Al Hossani, Sectional Head, Private Schools Department, said they had come across, while checking enrolment records and results of some schools, that students who had discontinued studies had been re-admitted. They were being shown as repeating the examinations when they did not attend classes through the year, she said, adding that both the school and the parents of such children would be held accountable for such malpractices.