8- Develop the ability of the person to think critically and to soundly and freely express himself, and
to enable him to innovate and invent and to contribute to social, economic, scientific and technical
progress.
9- Develop research skills and self-learning by various means, while accessing sources of knowledge
and harnessing the methods and means of advanced information technologies to serve the
educational process.”
39. Moreover, it became in evidence to the Institution that the Ministry of Education does not resort
to apprising the Prosecutor-General except upon exhausting all the means and measures through
the committee concerned with the procedures for enforcing compulsory attendance of school at the
Ministry, which endeavours to study the causes of the absence of the student, and communication
with the parents, and identify the reasons and attempt to devise the suitable solutions, based on
what was stated in the Decision of the Minister of Education No. (535) of 2006 concerning the
regulation and implementation of compulsory education regarding the parents and guardians
of the children who reached the compulsory education age, whereby the concerned committee
undertakes in coordination with the competent departments at the Ministry of Education to notify
the parents and guardians of the children who reached the compulsory age and were not registered
in governmental or private schools, such prior to the start of the academic year by five months to
notify the Ministry of the reasons why they were not registered, and in case the Ministry is not
informed of the reasons or in case of unacceptable reasons and if the children are not actually
enrolled then the competent quarter shall send a notification to the parents and guardians through
warning them through registered mail after the expiry of fifteen days since the beginning of study
in which he indicates that in case those children do not attend school within ten days from the date
of being notified they will be referred to Prosecutor-General for purposes of bringing legal action
against them.
40. Moreover, in case a student does not attend school for a continuous or discontinuous period of
ten days then a warning will be sent to the parents and guardians notifying the father or guardian
within ten days from the date of the completed period of lack of attendance by virtue of a registered
letter with a receipt in which it is shown that in case the Ministry is not informed of the reasons
for the non-attendance of the student of school within ten days of date of his knowledge of the
warning or in case the Ministry rejects the reasons for non-attendance he will be referred to the
public prosecution to file a criminal lawsuit against him.
41. In case of a lack of positive response to the warning referred to in the previous paragraph, the
committee shall prepare a report on each case separately combined with documents indicating
the occurrence of those violations which will be submitted to the Minister of Education to take
a decision particular to referring the violations to the public prosecution for purposes of filing a
criminal lawsuit against those in breach.
42. As regards the jurisdiction of the National Institution to receive complaints and requests for legal
advice and assistance related to the same right, the National Institution received actually one
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