Kuwaiti charity lays corner stone of teaching complex
The Kuwaiti Al-Najat charity on Tuesday laid the corner stone of a large educational complex for Syrian refugees in the southeastern Turkish town of Sanliurfa.
Ibrahim Al-Bader, the director of external education at the Kuwaiti association, told KUNA by telephone that the planned complex would accommodate 3,000 students. The huge building would also include sections for computer teaching classes. The teaching facility is named after the Kuwaiti philanthropist Abdulaziz Al-Hassan, renowned for various and much applauded charitable activities.
Meanwhile, teams of the society distributed food to 300 Syrian refugee families.
They were also involved in psychological remedy programs for Syrian refugee orphans. Moreover, they distributed clothes to the orphans and distributed school supplies. including bags, among students. (KUNA)
Despite the fact that the private institutes have been accredited by the Public Authority for Applied Education and Training (PAAET), the management over the past two years has been refusing to equate the certificates of cadres graduating from such institutes, and preventing them from achieving their dream of employment, whether in the government or private sector, as Civil Service Commission also keeps rejecting any certificate not certified by PAAET.
Member of the Board of Directors of the International Experts Company, which owns the British Stanford Institute, Dr Faisal Al-Hamad, explained that failure to certify certificates has led to a loss of confidence in private institutes, explaining the students’ predicament is caught up between the Public Authority for Applied Education and Training and Civil Service Commission.
“Does Public Authority for Applied Education and Training intend to continue with private institutes or eliminate them altogether”, he wondered saying, “If the intention is to promote private institutes, students’ certificates must be certified immediately”. He explained that certificate is the student’s gateway to the labor market, and without it, he will not be able to get a job in either government or private sector.
Fate
On the other hand, Dr Al-Hamad said there are Kuwaiti employees in those private institutes, and he has only 15 employees in his institute, while the total number of Kuwaitis in private education institutes may reach about 2,000 employees, wondering about their fate and how the institutes will continue to sustain the payment of rents and salaries.
“To this day, we pay salaries and we are committed, but for how long? We are on the verge of bankruptcy, and I am certain that all private institutes in Kuwait are currently on the verge of bankruptcy. Who is benefitting from the destruction of this vital and effective sector that contributes to the development of the country, which is the training and rehabilitation sector, he noted.
Dr Al-Hamad explained that private institutes also contribute to providing job opportunities for Kuwaitis by awarding them certificates that are beneficial to them in several specialties; therefore, failure to endorse their certificates will contribute in raising the level of unemployment in Kuwait–despite the state’s tendency toward Kuwaitization of jobs.
Al-Hamad was surprised by the lack of vision, whether by PAAET’s administration or Civil Service Commission for the future, stressing that private institutes need real support from the state, especially as they’re considered an important economic support.
Al-Hamad said the reason for refusing to certify the certificates is a disagreement over financial appropriations allocated by PAAET for testing students, pointing out that the decision-making process is still “sterile.”
Al-Hamad said: We implore head of the cabinet to provide material and moral support to private institutes in Kuwait.