The government on Friday approved a change in guidelines that allows local education boards to set summer holidays at different times of the year to encourage more family time in the chronically overworked country.
Under the Kids' Week initiative, which the government aims to begin in fiscal 2018 starting in April, the guidelines will include a provision for "holidays for educational experiences in the home or local region."
Education boards will be asked to split up holidays appropriately on a regional basis. The change to the guidelines for implementing the school education law will take effect Wednesday.