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The UAE education ministry is working on raising the compulsory education age to 18 from 15 by next year for UAE nationals, in a bid to minimise the high dropout rates in schools, Khaleej Times has reported. “We are working on increasing the compulsory education age and by the beginning of next year it will be announced,” Shaikha Al Shamsi, chief executive for educational affairs at the ministry, was quoted as saying.

“Raising the compulsory education age is one of the key component of the strategy that will help minimise the dropout rate,” she told the daily. Dubai’s Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA) placed the dropout rate in the emirate at 22% among boys and 14% among girls.

Source: AMEinfo