MP queries about violations in College of Sharia’s dept in KU
Newly-appointed investigators congratulated
KUWAIT CITY, Jan 16: MP Hamdan Al-Azmi has forwarded queries to Minister of Education and Higher Education Dr Ali Fahd Al-Mudaf about the violations in the Department of Jurisprudence and Principles of Islamic Law at the College of Sharia and Islamic Studies in Kuwait University.
The lawmaker demanded for information such as the names, qualifications and experience of the staff assigned at the department since 2017 till date; copies of decisions on their appointment and job advertisements published by the department since 2008 till date; list of lecturers who were terminated, date and reason for termination; names and qualifications of the members of the Recruitment Committee tasked to interview and accept applicants for the advertised jobs; list of applicants with copies of their certificates and qualifications; names and qualifications of those accepted by the committee; distance education curricula of the department from 2010 till date; and number of students in academic years 2017/2018, 2018/ 2019 and 2019/ 2020.
Al-Azmi also unveiled his plan to submit queries to Minister of Interior Sheikh Thamer Ali Al-Sabah on violations in the appointment of a batch of investigators at the General Criminal Investigations Department in the Interior Ministry.
He said he will request for information such as the criteria for appointing these investigators and clarification of the rumor that interview constitutes 60 percent of the total admission score.
MP Abdulkareem Al-Kandari congratulated the newly appointed investigators, but he called for the formation of a committee which will be tasked to receive and investigate complaints about appointments.
MP Osama Al-Shaheen forwarded queries to Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Sheikh Hamad Jaber Al-Ali about the payment of additional salary to employees studying on scholarship as per the decision issued by the Council of Ministers on March 26, 2020 to grant additional salary to these employees to cover expenses related to the coronavirus crisis. He also wants to know the total number of these employees.