activities and lessons produced by schoolteachers, within the direct relationship
between the teacher and his students, which are uploaded on digital electronic
content.
5.12 Within the framework of cooperation between the Ministries of Education and
Information Affairs, a daily TV educational channel was launched, to meet the needs
of all categories of students, so that these study materials are available to all,
especially those who do not have digital devices in their homes, and video lessons
were downloaded on YouTube, a service for all categories of students, which they
can return to it at any time for study and review.
5.13 As for private schools, they were obligated to provide remote educational
services to students, including lessons and applications, and to monitor the results of
those applications and tests accurately and objectively, and many of these schools
also offered a reduction in tuition fees for the months (April, May, June) 2020, which
ranged between (5-10%), in addition to looking into the cases of insolvent parents
who are unable to pay those fees as a result of being affected by those exceptional
circumstances, by rescheduling the fees and relieving them of the amounts of
services that have not been utilized and refunding their amounts to them if they had
paid them in advance.
5.14 Public and private higher education institutions also continued to provide their
educational services, lectures, applications, and tests for students remotely, as
universities’ options varied with regard to the subject of student assessment between
the option of remote exams and tests, and postponing final exams to September
2020, and considering the student’s record as an evaluation tool.
5.15 Some of the private universities expressed their willingness to provide discounts,
financial facilities or reschedule the payment of due fees according to students’
situation, considering the conditions of parents in proportion to their current
circumstances.
5.16 Despite these efforts and the achievements made, the NIHR hopes that the
authorities concerned with the right to education, will in the future be prepared for any
emergency circumstances or changes, so it can ensure continuing the educational
process without interruption, especially with the tremendous development in the field
of information technology, artificial intelligence, and social media. All of this serves to
ensure the continuity of the state in respecting, promoting, and protecting the right to
education in a manner consistent with relevant international and regional standards.
5.17 Being keen to provide the necessary protection for the right to education, the
NIHR received (5) related complaints in (2019), in addition to (3) complaints in (2020)
whose contents varied in terms of the rights alleged to have been violated. It
addressed a number of them through direct communication with the competent
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