During its meeting here Tuesday, the Kuwaiti National Assembly committee on alien social phenomena urged Minister of Education and Minister of Higher Education Nouriya Al-Subeeh to ban mixed education in private colleges in line with law.

Praising Al-Subeeh who attended the committee meeting for her cooperation and understanding of the necessity of full implementation of segregation education law, chief of the committee Walid Al-Tabtabaei told reporters that the reality of private colleges went against the law which provided for male-female separation in all classroom, cafeterias, and sports activities.

The committee asked the minister to notify the private tertiary education institutions nationwide to abide by the law or face legal penalties, Al-Tabtabaei noted.
The penalties could include withhold of "academic approvals," he warned.
To avoid such penalties and correct their situations, the private colleges can assign the current facilities for one gender and set up separate facilities for the other gender, he suggested.

The private colleges were founded after the issuance of the law against mixed education, so they are forced to abide by it, the senior parliamentarian asserted.
To enhance the social service and prevent some misconducts in schools the committee asked the minister to assign a sociologist for each classroom, rather than for each school.

One sociologist can not care for up to 500 school children. They can care for just 50 school children, according to Al-Tabtabaei.