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ABU DHABI // The capital's education regulator is bringing in guidelines to help schools prevent bullying and other behavioural problems in pupils. Related ■ School violence: the truth behind a tragedy ■ Parents 'must act' if a child is being bullied Topic Abu DHABI Primary schools High schools The guidelines, developed last year by the Abu DHABI Education Council (Adec), will add to a disciplinary code issued by the Ministry of Education in December. Adec is training educators on how to use the guidelines in workshops.

ABU DHABI // A new curriculum cutting from 13 to a maximum of seven the number of compulsory subjects in the last three years of school is to be tested in 2012. The revamped curriculum, which will go on trial in selected secondary schools in Abu DHABI next September, will also offer a vocational stream for non-academically inclined pupils in Grades 10, 11 and 12.