KUWAIT CITY - A senior official from the Ministry of Education (MoE) indicates the ministry will not hire the services of Bedoun teachers at the beginning of the next session because the ministry has already filled all 2,000 vacancies which the Council of Ministers allocated to expatriate teachers, reports Al-Qabas daily. The source suggested the ministry should request the Civil Service Commission (CSC) to create new vacancies, to ensure the employment of Bedoun at teaching and administrative positions. He explained the ministry has used all available allocations for the teaching staff through its foreign recruitments from Egypt, Jordan, Tunisia and Syria, in addition to Kuwaitis and expatriates recruited locally. He stressed the ministry needs approval of the Cabinet after the CSC might have shown positive disposition towards the request.
The Minister of Education and Higher Education Dr Mudhi AbdulAziz Al-Humoud has issued three decisions concerning the regulation of foreign scholarship and attesting of certificates obtained from academic institutions from several countries not recognized by the Ministry, reports Al-Shahid daily. The first decision specifies the Ministry will not attest or approve any admission or certificate from foreign higher institutions, colleges or universities until the Ministry recognizes such institutions. The second decision states the attestating of bachelor degrees from recognized institutes will be based on equivalency of high school certificates of the holders with Kuwaiti high schools. The third decision informs the Ministry has suspended admissions and registration of Kuwaiti students in four Bahraini private universities. The affected universities are Bahrain Medical University, Royal University, Arab Open University and New York Technology University.
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