Kuwait Times, Saturday, Sep 24, 2022 | Safar 28, 1444
72.5% of MoE faculty members Kuwaitis, 27.5% non-Kuwaitis
Kuwait:
New hirings in Kuwait
by the ministry of education will increase the number of its faculty members
from around 88,000 (63,900 Kuwaitis and 24,300 non-Kuwaitis) to around 90,000,
mostly in teaching or managerial positions, maintaining the percentage of
employees as determined by the Civil Service Bureau at 27.5 percent for
non-Kuwaitis and 72.5 percent for Kuwaitis.
Local hirings of faculty members exceeded 167
teachers until last week, which is less than the 1,000 teachers stipulated to be
recruited. Foreign contracts are expected to decrease due to prospective
employees declining appointments, with the ministry hiring 80 to 90 Jordanian
teachers. All new hirings have been done for specific specializations which the
ministry lacks.
The administrative sector at the ministry has
completed its duties over the preparation for the new academic year. To make up
the shortfall in employees, it plans to hire around 790 local and foreign
teachers according to the needs of public education. Out of 170 teachers who
were interviewed, contracts have been signed with 129 teachers, who will
gradually join from October.
An administrative team has been formed to complete
procedures regarding new teachers at the health and interior ministries in
coordination with Kuwait airport to receive them as soon as approval from the
Civil Service Commission is received. The committee appointed to hire teachers
from Palestine has contracted around 500 teachers specializing in Physics and
Mathematics to make up for the shortage of contracts with Jordanian teachers,
which was supposed to reach 280 teachers, as previously the ministry had planned
to only contract 365 Palestinian teachers.
Undersecretary resigns
Meanwhile, Education Minister Ali Al-Mudhaf has
accepted the resignation of his undersecretary for private education Abdulmehsen
Al-Huwaila, effective from Sept 28. Meanwhile, the head of the public service
department at the ministry Feras Kurtch, said the department has reinforced some
educational areas with more than 940 assistants, as procedures with five
cleaning contracts have been completed and five other contracts for security
have been finalized. Some will start their services in October and others in
January. Kurtch appreciated the efforts of all workers in the ministry, and
wished them the best for the upcoming school year.