Expat teachers excluded from Kuwaitisation this year

Foreign schoolteachers, physical education instructors and social workers are excluded from replacement by Kuwaitis in this academic year, according to local media reports.

Kuwait’s Civil Service Commission, the state employment agency, has addressed the country’s Education Ministry that jobs of teaching, social services, physical education instruction as well as school development and follow-up are outside the scope of the country’s policy replacing foreign employees with Kuwaitis in the government jobs, Al Qabas reported.

However, the Commission has requested the ministry to terminate the services of 67 non-Kuwaiti administrative employees by the end of the current school year, the paper said.

The Finance Ministry would be asked to take the necessary procedures for freezing those foreign employees, if the commission receive no remarks from the ministry over the requested replacements in 15 days at most, the report said.