Demanding start of private courses for teaching Syrian regime’s curriculum | Security services disperse demonstration in Ain al-Arab (Kobani)

Aleppo province: SOHR sources have reported that the Internal Security Forces (Asayish) have dispersed students who were protesting for the second consecutive day in Ain al-Arab city centre (Kobani) in eastern Aleppo.

 

According to SOHR sources, tens of students demonstrated in Ain al-Arab city centre yesterday, demanding allow them to start private courses for teaching the Syrian regime’s curriculum, before the security services dispersed the demonstrators.

 

Also, security and military services dispersed a demonstration took place today by force, and arrested several students.

 

SOHR activists have confirmed that these demonstrations came after the teachers in that region had been forced to sign vows stipulating for not presenting courses of the Syrian regime’s curriculum to the city’s students.

 

The students are looking forward to learning the Syrian regime’s approved curriculum which grants internationally recognized certifications unlike the curriculums adopted in SDF-held areas. Its worth noting that the education institutions affiliated to SDF are still nascent and face considerable obstacles, as it is the case across the entire areas under the control of the Syrian opposition.