Minister of Education Dr Nayef Al Hajref has asked ministry leaders to study appropriate steps to end the menace of private tutoring and come up with a mechanism to arrest teachers who deployed this method to make a quick buck and have turned it into a business. According to Kuwait Times daily, the minister was surprised at the large sums being spent in the sector.

The annual budgetary spending on teaching has reached around KD 1.3 billion as per a study, the figure almost touching the total budget allocation for the ministry which is pegged at KD 1.6 billion.

Sources said Al-Hajref asked ministry leaders to study the real reasons behind the all pervasive culture of private tutoring even when the ministry provides all necessary facilities for education.

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