KUWAIT: Ministry of Education’s Undersecretary Jassim Al-Omar said that the ministry has made no decision to give students a holiday during the last 10 days of Ramadan. Al-Omar noted that the ministry’s leaders did not think about this matter at all and he said a 10 day holiday is something that would just cause problems in the ministry.
http://www.kuwaittimes.net/read_news.php?newsid=MjE1NTE4NzA1
Sorry-no holiday!
September 28, 2007 at 9:11 pm (Local Education Laws)
Interesting-Philips wasn’t the first!
August 6, 2007 at 4:37 pm (Local Education Laws)
I trawled the TES website and found a few more interesting stories about teachers and dodgy schools. I wonder if much has changed in these schools?
http://www.tes.co.uk/search/story/?story_id=83697
http://www.tes.co.uk/search/story/?story_id=82947
And it seems a certain ’spokesman’ was later involved in a fracas with unpaid teachers post war……mmm it’s been a difficult 10 years for Mr H.
New Education revamp
August 1, 2007 at 1:53 pm (Local Education Laws)
| Kuwait unveils new ‘project’ to reform public education system; ‘More attention to be paid to students’ |
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KUWAIT (KUNA): Kuwait Educational Development Center Chief Ghazi al-Rashidi has unfolded a project to develop and reform the public educational system in Kuwait. The official made the announcement at a news conference here Tuesday, saying the new project aimed to reform public education in a bid to meet relevant strategic requirements and control the quality of educational outputs pursuant to international criteria. It is also intended to pay more attention to pupils, overhaul school infrastructure so as to ensure the continued improvement of educational environment and bridging the digital divide between the reality of public education and requirements of dealing with state-of-the-art technology, with a more active family role and societal support, he said. The future vision of the project is to improve educational quality in knowledge and non-knowledge outputs that could contribute to the implementation of the public education strategy in the State of Kuwait for 2005-2025, al-Rashidi added. The project was initiated in 2004, and the implementation stage kicked off in the 2005-2006 school year with the establishment of the Al-Fadhl bin Al-Abbas Primary School for Boys in Hawalli Governorate. The project is to be expanded by the setting up of new four primary schools with the starting of the 2007-2008 school year, he said. By adopting the fresh public educational blueprint, the center seeks to provide a congenial and attractive atmosphere at schools thanks to high care and oversight, he added. Special classes are to be allocated for helping weak pupils and developing their skills through specialized teachers in Arabic, English and math. More attention will also be attached to the introduction of educational technology, including laptops, to preparatory and secondary stages. Furthermore, efforts are underway to provide a local computer network at schools in a bid to enable them to invest educational technology in an effective manner, the Kuwaiti educational official noted. |
