The 2019-2020 academic year began in the Euphrates region of North and East Syria. The school bell rang for educational, scientific and multilingual education with a perspective of democratic nation. 

Tens of thousands of teachers and hundreds of thousands of students are in the classes.

One of the achievement of the Rojava revolution, was the implementation of the multi-lingual education system in the region. In the past 7 years the system has been implemented in the whole North and East Syria as more areas were liberated by the SDF. 

The preparations of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria for the 2019-2020 academic year have been completed and today hundreds of thousands of students and tens of thousands of teachers will be going to their classes across the region.

More than 90,000 students are attending classes in the cantons of Kobanê and Girê Spî in the Euphrates region, which is predominantly Kurdish and Arab.

Last year, the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria decided to withdraw textbooks and materials containing various errors and mistakes and to publish new materials. The textbooks and materials were prepared in Arabic, Kurdish and Syriac.

On the other hand, thousands of teachers were trained in pedagogy and teaching during the summer. In addition, a summer school was opened for students with problems on some subjects and immigrants to the region and preparations for the new year continued throughout the summer.

With the arrival of new textbooks and materials prepared on the basis of a scientific and democratic nation perspective, the students of the new school year started trilingual education.

Speaking to ANF about the new school year, Kobanê Teachers' Association member Aras Ebdurehman said that they were preparing for the new year during the summer and that thousands of teachers underwent teaching and pedagogy lessons.

Until the fourth grade, children are educated in their mother tongue and begin to receive second language education after the fourth grade, while receiving a foreign language in the fifth grade.

Ebdurehman noted that the education system in North and East Syria was developed on the basis of a democratic nation. "An Arab child is studying in his/her mother tongue for the first four years and then is learning Kurdish from the fourth grade and another foreign language in the fifth grade."

Cumana Misko, the spokesperson of the Education Committee of the Canton of Kobanê, said that the textbooks and materials published in the past year were all collected because there were some mistakes and printing errors, and new textbooks were published for the 2019-2020 academic year.

In the Euphrates region, which consists of the cantons of Kobanê and Girê Spî, there are a total of 839 schools. There are 4,200 teachers and 89,000 students.

In the district of Raqqa and its villages, 5,500 teachers and 150,000 students are working in 340 schools.

In Tabqa and its villages there are 195 schools, more than 2,400 teachers and over 65,000 students.

In the 465 schools of Deir ez-Zor, which has just been liberated from ISIS, the bell rang for more than 5,400 teachers and more than 150,000 students.

The new academic year also began in Manbij for more than 3,000 teachers and more than 30,000 students.