Dates for spring holiday to be set by education ministry

The Ministry of Education set the 1- 15 of next February as the date for the Spring Holiday for all schools in Iraq.
Salama al-Hassan, a ministry spokesperson, stated, "Reports over cancelling this holiday are groundless."
The Council of Ministers decided to suspend the examinations of the mid-year for 2014 -2015 in order to compensate the teaching cadres for the late start of the scholastic year.