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Stu­dents and teach­ers will en­joy a longer Ju­ly/Au­gust va­ca­tion start­ing in the 2025/2026 aca­d­e­m­ic year, fol­low­ing Cab­i­net’s ap­proval of the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion’s rec­om­men­da­tion to re­vise the school year cal­en­dar.

The Min­istry con­firmed the new struc­ture of the aca­d­e­m­ic year in an of­fi­cial state­ment to­day.

“From 2025, the Ju­ly/Au­gust break will be ex­tend­ed from sev­en to eight weeks, while main­tain­ing the full 39 weeks of in­struc­tion­al time across three terms,” the Min­istry ex­plained.