It's Back To School Once Again
By Rosli Abidin Yahya

Bandar Seri Begawan - As part of the annual back-to-school routine, parents and their children crowded bookstores and shopping complexes nationwide yesterday for their last-minute shopping.

Schools all around the country will reopen today for the 2005 school term.

Parents were seen in large numbers accompanying their children scouring shops to buy textbooks, stationeries as well as school uniforms.

Currently shops in Brunei are participating in the back-to-school sale until the end of January to allow students to buy school uniforms and accessories at reduced prices.

More than 100,000 students of Brunei Darussalam are set to return to their educational institutions today.

Some students will enter classes for the first time in 208 government and private kindergartens and primary schools nationwide.

Students who passed their Primary School Evaluation examination will also be entering some 115 secondary schools - government, private and Arabic - for the first time.

Available statistics put the number of students at 106,294 for the year 2004 attending 252 institutions offering education level of kindergartens, primary, secondary, technical, vocational, teacher training, institute and university. -- Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin

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