KUWAIT: The education ministry has rejected an application by an Arab Embassy to open a school for the children of its community like other foreign schools such as Indian, Pakistani and Filipino schools. The embassy requested through the foreign ministry to allow it to open the school and follow the curriculum of its country, while adhering to laws and decisions in effect in Kuwait.

They said the school will enable children to complete their schooling in their country in case they return or join universities there, without the need for exams and qualifying tests, as the case is now. Informed sources said that among the justification of rejecting the request is that foreign schools in Kuwait have different cultures and rely on certain languages, but Arabs have the same Arab and Muslim culture and language as Kuwait, so children of Arab communities can join Arab private schools that have the same curriculum of government schools.

Sources said if the education ministry grants this embassy a license to open a school for its community, then all Arab embassies will ask for the same and open schools for their communities in Kuwait, and this means the load will increase on the education ministry to supervise and follow up these schools.