KUWAIT: Ministry of Education announced that the financial waste resulting from students failing or dropping out of high school reached KD 24 million in one year, and a total of KD 91.2 million in five years; from 2005 to 2010.

Statistics showed that dropouts and failed students in high schools had cost the ministry KD 12.3 million in 2005-2006, KD 20.7 million in 2006-2007, KD 19.8 million in 2007-2008, KD 22.3 million in 2008-2009 and KD 16.1 million in 2009- 2010, said Shokriya Al-Sa’eedi, the head of high school directors’ council and high school supervisor at Ahmadi educational area.

She was speaking on the sidelines of a symposium held at Safiya Bint Abdul Muttaleb school in Mangaf and attended by the ministry’s Undersecretary Dr Haitham Al-Athari. Sa’eedi added that the largest number of dropouts was registered in Jahra educational area, where 35 percent of the students (15 percent boys and 18 percent girls) dropped out while Hawally had the least number of dropouts of less than one percent. — Al-Anbaa