KUWAIT: Following the Cabinet's decision to transfer supervision of private nurseries from the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor (MSAL) to the Ministry of Education (MoE), a number of private nursery owners vowed to file lawsuits against the Cabinet as they deemed the decision as being against nurseries and their employees' interests.

The owners of 340 private nurseries added that they would go to court to suspend the Cabinet's decision until a final one was issued by the court. "This decision will allow all private schools to establish their own nurseries that will surely work as schools as well, which violates several rules," stressed the owners. - Al-Anbaa

Union’s school fee request rejected

KUWAIT: Education Minister Bader Al-Essa said the ministry rejected a request by the private schools union to grant it the freedom in deciding fees for private schools, adding "the ministry alone decides the fees for those schools, be they Arab or foreign, through a technical committee formed for this purpose". He expected the committee to complete its work soon and will announce the fees for each school.

Meanwhile, Essa said graduates from non-education colleges will be accepted for educational jobs in American and British schools, through interviews and selection of those qualified, as part of efforts to solve the problem of bringing foreign teachers from abroad that private schools are facing, and a lack of Kuwaiti graduates who are able to work in these schools because the higher education ministry is limiting education and philosophy specialties to Kuwait University only, and not allowing private universities in Kuwait to open education streams to graduate qualified teachers who are able to meet school's needs. - Al-Rai