Kuwait: Kuwaiti Ministry of Education Acting Under-Secretary of Education Faisal Al Maqsid issued a memorandum on procedures for non-Kuwaiti teachers and staff stranded due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Al Rai media reported.
Al Maqsid said that, according to the Cabinet of Ministers, all workers who left the country before 12 March and were unable to return due to the flight ban will be on official leave, so they are entitled to their wages.
Since the new school year is scheduled to begin on October 4, many teachers are still stranded abroad. A few days ago, Al Maqsid told Al Jarida that the number of those teachers exceeds 1,000 and that his absence will have a significant effect on the school system.
In addition, it clarified that the resolution to return to stranded teachers was at the discretion of the physical fitness authorities.
On 12 March, all schools were suspended and all educational staff travelling there were stranded, as Kuwait Airport was closed to all advertising flights. In June, five months after school closed, many private school teachers were fired because schools could not. pay their wages.
Then, in July, The Minister of Education, Dr. Saud Al Harbi, announced that the 2019/2020 school year had ended for public schools and that all student grades would be based on his previous work. were suspected for more than five months.
A few weeks later, the Ministry of Education reduced tuition fees for all private schools by 25%. In reaction to the decision, Omar Al Ghurair, president of Kuwait’s Union of Private School owners and cultural institutions, announced that the union had submitted a letter of complaint to the Ministry of Education.
In August, the Kuwaiti government stopped renewing entry permits for non-Kuwaiti teachers stranded abroad.
In late August, the Kuwait Teachers Society harshly criticized the Minister of Education for his mismanagement of the school scene of the COVID-19 crisis.
Other demanding situations faced by school staff included the ban, as they were asked to apply for an exit visa to the Ministry of Education, and some struggled to renovate their apartment due to bureaucratic issues.
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