KUWAIT: Head of the parliamentary education panel MP Hamad Al-Matar has contacted the education ministry regarding a teacher who has been accused of cutting a student's hair in order to find out the facts, after the teacher said she was wrongfully accused. "The accused expatriate teacher has filed a grievance as a result of an investigation which found her guilty of allegedly cutting a student's hair after students said the teacher constantly threatened to cut students' hair if they do not follow instructions," sources told Kuwait Times.

The teacher said the accusations made against her are not truthful and she did not threaten or do anything that violates educational rules, and asked to reopen the investigation. Mubarak Al-Kabeer educational area sent its report to the undersecretary of the ministry to relieve the teacher from her duties. The report showed that the teacher was hired locally.

Meanwhile, instructions have been given to proceed with employment of GCC citizens, stateless residents (bedoons) and children of Kuwaiti mothers after they passed their interviews and were accepted after approvals. These procedures have lately stalled. The Undersecretary for General Education Osama Al-Sultan notified the management department the importance of finishing procedures and sending lists to the department in order to publish employment decisions, especially since their grades are available and there are no obstacles to their employment.