77 Palestinian Teachers Have Rejected The Contracts Because Of Low Salary

19 May 2017 Kuwait

A total of 77 Palestinian teachers chosen by the Ministry of Education to teach in public schools have rejected the contracts because the salary offered to them was almost half of what they expected. According to a report published on gulfnews.com Thursday, the ministry’s plan was to hire 180 teachers for the next academic year and a delegation from the ministry traveled to Palestine where they conducted tests and interviews to choose from a list of 1,173 teachers including 425 women.

However, the ministry recruited only 103 as others refused to work for a monthly salary of KD 480, which is way below the KD 800 salary they expected. Those who accepted the contracts will teach Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Geology. This is the first of such recruitment after the country lifted last year a 26-year ban on hiring Palestinian teachers.

Palestinian teachers made remarkable contributions to the development of education in the country, particularly in the 1960s – the early days of building the nation. However, their status plummeted in 1990 in the wake of a deep Kuwaiti-Palestinian rift following the invasion of Kuwait by Iraqi leader Saddam Hussain, which was supported by Palestinian leaders.

Kuwaitis felt betrayed by the pro- Saddam attitude of the Palestinians so following its liberation in February 1991, Kuwait cut off ties with the PLO, froze its financial backing and expelled a large number of Palestinians from the country. The bilateral relations started to improve in December 2004 when Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas apologized for the Palestinian position on the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.

 

SOURCE : ARABTIMES

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