The Emirates Identity Authority has valued the Abu Dhabi Education Council’s initiative to adopt the ID card as a major condition for registering new students in the emirate’s schools for the academic year 2012-2013.
The Emirates Identity Authority believed that this decision would support its efforts for completing the registration of the UAE population within the grace periods given to each emirate, each demographic category and each age category.
In a statement to Al Ittihad newspaper, the Emirates Identity Authority noted the Abu Dhabi Education Council’s decision, considering that it is not inconsistent with the grace period given for registering children which ends on October 1, thereby serving its call not to wait until the last minute for completing registration procedures.
The Emirates Identity Authority reiterated its call for all the population to register and renew expired ID cards, particularly in the light of the increasing adoption of the ID card across the UAE. Over 100 authorities and organizations have so far adopted the ID card as a condition for availing of their services.
The Emirates Identity Authority affirmed that the ID card is a national project aimed at supporting comprehensive development projects in the UAE through providing the required information on the demographic structure to support decision-making and strategic planning in all vital fields and sectors, particularly the education sector.
Earlier, the Abu Dhabi Education Council announced that presenting a valid ID card or registration/renewal receipt is a condition for completing the registration of national and expatriate students, effective from January 22, 2012, for joining kindergartens and all classes up to grade 12 for the academic year 2012-2013.
The Council also called on the parents who failed to provide the school management with certified copies of the ID cards of their school children to do so, enabling an electronic file to be prepared for each student at the council’s schools, of which 125,000 students are enrolled in government schools.
The Council clarified that the electronic system available its Isis Software uses the ID card unified number and takes all the data recorded for each number, adding that this number would remain unchanged throughout the student’s study and consequently can be referred to at any time.
The Council underlined the importance of these electronic data and files for each student and for the unified numbers of their ID cards. This would facilitate communication with parents and students and sending messages to parents to keep them abreast of the academic position of their children at school in terms of presence, absence, academic attainment, grades obtained and other activities that students should participate in, the council said, adding that parents would know everything related to their children at school through this precise electronic process.
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