How bad is education in Kuwait? Oh, let the Ministry of Education’s latest report count the 70-plus ways. A new survey which includes over 2,000 case studies on individual students and their parents states bluntly that Kuwait’s state education system is terrible and in need of immediate rescue.
The study, conducted by the Ministry of Education’s Department for Research and Curricular Development, concluded that Kuwait’s education dilemma is primarily caused by a combination of bad teachers, terrible curricula and a lack of cooperation between parents and teachers, which has produced a generation of lazy unmotivated students.
The report, which was leaked to the local Arabic press, states that the country’s poor and dated state education system does not fulfill the students’ educational needs, only encouraging them to parrot information without proper understanding. It also accused the state education system of failing to encourage critical thinking, or to pay attention to students’ interests and extracurricular activities.
A Ministry of Education insider told the Kuwait Times that recent rumors within the ministry suggest that a new committee is shortly to be formed to take responsibility for improving the country’s state education system. “There are many proposals by academics and teachers in the ministry which are promising and appear to be very positive,” the insider said. “We hope that they are executed in due time, and we hope to see good results in the future. Over the past two decades the education system has deteriorated badly.
Among the proposals and recommendations, researchers and academics have recommended increasing the salaries of expatriate teachers, a demand that many expatriate teachers have made repeatedly in recent years. The recommendations also include strengthening the role of parent-teacher relations, developing new curricula, and paying more attention to students’ extracurricular activities.
© Kuwait Times
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