Kuwait seeks to overhaul special education
GCC scouts, guides coordinating committee convenes
KUWAIT CITY, Dec 20, (KUNA): Kuwait is exerting efforts to develop the teaching system for special needs’ students and enhance teachers’ skills to deal with this category of society in the best way possible, said Minister of Education and Higher Education Dr Bader Al-Essa on Sunday.
The ministry is working on developing educational facilities of disabled students, while also holding specialized training courses for teachers in these schools, Minister Al-Essa told reporters after a tour on exams’ committees at schools for special needs people.
On his part, acting assistant undersecretary for special education Fahad Al-Ghais said special challenges’ students started their final exams last Thursday, simultaneously with the tests at ministry’s public schools.
Meanwhile, chairman of the special education schools administration Abdullah Al-Ajmi noted that the ministry has 18 schools with 1,700 students of all types of disabilities.
He said that the ministry is setting a plan to provide each school with a specialized supervisor depending on the type of disability cases the school deals with.
The coordinating committee for the pioneers of boy scout and girl guides movement in the GCC
States commenced its eighth meeting Sunday.
Kuwait constantly supports various Gulf scouting activities and events, Mohammad Al-Dobayan, Chairman of the Kuwait Boy Scouts Association (KBSA), said in a press statement following today’s meeting, noting that hosting this meeting in Kuwait proves the country’s willingness to cooperate for the development of the Gulf scout movement at all levels.
The coordinating committee exerts significant efforts in backing the scout movement, linking relations between Gulf scout associations, preparing purposeful programs to serve the scout movement,
and reviving ties among scouting pioneers in GCC countries, said the KBSA chief.
He also expressed his hope that the meeting, slated to conclude on Dec 23, results in the adoption of fruitful recommendations and decisions that reflect positively on the Gulf scout march in the next stage.
The Kuwait Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) extolled the Arab Labor Organization (ALO) for its efforts of enhancing labor in Arab countries, calling it the sole entity that represents Arab labor.
In a press statement on Sunday, the KCCI said that Chairman Ali Al-Ghanim met with ALO Director General Fayez Al-Mutairi to discuss the importance of establishing a minimum standard of labor and maintaining a medium between laborers’ rights and organization profits.
“Both officials agreed to transcend traditional concepts and utilize new measures that focus on training to combat unemployment in the Arab world,” the statement added.
Operating mostly within the scope of the Arab League, with its first administrative council established in 1979, the ALO is the first Arab organization that deals with labor issues and rights.