Kuwait Parliament Urges Segregation in Private
Colleges
Kuwait News Agency - 09 May, 2007
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. |