Ministry seeks 900 teachers through ‘internal hiring’
Maximum electricity consumption projected at 14,400 megawatts
KUWAIT: The Ministry of Education (MoE) plans to recruit through local and foreign contracts bedoons, GCC nationals and expatriate teachers matching MoE conditions to join public schools’ teaching staff for the academic year 2018-2019. Well-informed educational sources said MoE’s public education sector had notified the ministry’s administrative sector of its need for 900 teachers for the coming school year. The sources added that the ministry will start local recruitment this week in various understaffed subjects already suffering shortages in Kuwaiti teachers.
The sources added that the new teachers will include teachers of English, Arabic, French, Maths, chemistry, physics, biology and geology and female physical education teachers. The sources added that Islamic education, social studies, PC and primary stage science will be restricted to Kuwaiti teachers. The sources stressed that once all local applications are collected, further measures will be followed prior to declaring the total number of teachers approved for employment and thus determine the balance that might be needed from outside Kuwait.
Electricity consumption
The Ministry of Electricity and Water (MEW) expects maximum electricity consumption rates for the summer to reach 14,400 megawatts out of the total electricity production of 16,700 megawatts, said ministry sources, noting that maximum consumption recorded last summer (2017) was 14,300 megawatts.
Road maintenance
The total number of roads maintenance contracts included in the Ministry of Public Works’ (MPW) 2017-2020 plan is 37, with an estimated total cost of KD 161 million, Minister of Public Works Hosam Al-Roumi said. The contracts include renovating Riqqa infrastructure as well as the Hadiya and Riqqa sewage grid, which has already been completed, the minister added. Further, Roumi said maintenance operations include asphalting, pavements and rain drainage lines, which had been delayed due to budget-related problems.
Rent allowance Minister of Housing and Minister of State for Services Jenan Boshehri said payment of rent allowance to 713 citizens has been suspended because they failed to update their information. Boshehri added that according to article 19 of law number 47/1993 pertaining housing welfare, rent allowance recipients have to notify the Public Authority for Housing
Allowance suspended to 713 citizens
Welfare (PAHW) of any changes in their marital, employment or property ownership information based on which they might not deserve rent allowances after a maximum of one month effective from the change.
Boshehri added that once the changes are reported and checked by the housing authority within a month, the suspended rent allowance will be paid retroactively. She added that the housing authority systems have been linked to 11 relevant government bodies to probe any changes in beneficiary citizens’ data.