Administrative Resolution
No. (21) of 2023
Concerning the
Requirements and
Procedures for Ceasing Educational Activity[1]
ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ
The Director General of
the Knowledge and Human Development Authority in Dubai,
After perusal of:
Law No. (2) of 2021 Concerning the Knowledge and Human Development Authority in Dubai; and
Executive Council Resolution No. (2) of 2017 Regulating Private Schools in the Emirate of Dubai,
Does hereby issue this Resolution.
The words and expressions mentioned in this Resolution will have the same meaning assigned to them in the above-mentioned Executive Council Resolution No. (2) of 2017.
The cessation of Educational Activity will be approved subject to the following requirements:
1.
A request for approval of cessation of Educational Activity must be
submitted to the KHDA at least one (1) School Year before the cessation
scheduled date.
2.
Proof of the Owner’s approval of the cessation of Educational
Activity must be submitted together with the reasons for the cessation.
3.
A detailed report on the conditions of the premises of the Private
School to be closed, and in which the Educational Activity is to be ceased, must be submitted.
4.
A detailed plan to transfer the Students enrolled in the Private
School to be closed to other schools must be submitted.
5.
The KHDA must be provided with a copy of the notice that will
be delivered to the Parents of the Students enrolled in the Private School to
be closed, informing them of the reasons of closure, so that the KHDA reviews the notice before it is
sent to Parents.
In submitting an application for cessation of Educational Activity, the following procedures will apply:
1.
The application for approval of cessation of Educational Activity
will be submitted to the KHDA through the electronic system adopted by it for
this purpose. The application must be submitted on the form prescribed
by the KHDA
for this purpose, together with the required documents.
2.
The applicant will pay the fee prescribed by the above-mentioned
Executive Council Resolution No. (2) of 2017 for the application for cessation
of Educational Activity.
3.
The KHDA will consider the application for cessation of Educational
Activity and the attached documents, and verify that applicant has
satisfied all the conditions and requirements and that the application is
accompanied by all the relevant documents stipulated in Article (2) of this
Resolution. The KHDA may request any additional documents or information it
deems necessary to consider the application.
4.
The KHDA will issue its decision in respect of the application for
cessation of Educational Activity within six (6) working days from fulfilling
all the data and document requirements for the application. The application
will be deemed rejected if no decision is issued by the KHDA within this
period.
5.
Where the application is rejected, the KHDA will notify the
applicant of the reasons for rejection.
6.
Where the application is approved, the applicant will be instructed to complete the process
of cessation of
Educational Activity and closure of Private School as per the plan approved by
the KHDA.
In addition to the obligations stipulated in Article (12) of the above-mentioned Executive Council Resolution No. (2) of 2017, upon obtaining the KHDA’s approval for cessation of Educational Activity, a Private School must:
1.
notify the Parents and the Private School staff of the decision to
cease the Educational Activity only after the KHDA approves the relevant
notice;
2.
ensure a smooth workflow and educational process at the Private School
during the period specified by the KHDA for cessation of Educational
Activity; and
3.
provide the KHDA with an electronic copy of all
the records
and transcripts of the Students enrolled in the Private School throughout
the period of its operation.
This Resolution will be published in the Official Gazette and will come into force on the day on which it is published.
Dr. Abdullah Mohammed Al Karam
Director General
Knowledge and
Human Development Authority in Dubai
Issued in Dubai on 15 August 2023
Corresponding to 28 Muharram 1445 A.H.
©2023 The Supreme
Legislation Committee in the Emirate of Dubai
[1]Every effort
has been made to produce an accurate and complete English version of this
legislation. However, for the purpose of its interpretation and application,
reference must be made to the original Arabic text. In case of conflict, the
Arabic text will prevail.