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Improvements in education, 1942-1945 513

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Provided our schools arc expanded and our secondary schools
well equipped and staffed Saudi Arabians will send their
sons 'to Bahrain or Kuwait rather them to Cairo or Beirut as
the 'onviroment in these small j*rab states is more suited
to their needs. Bahrain already has an excellent hostel
which can op extended when necessary.

Stops taken in Kuwait to meet this need.
The Kuwait Education Committee is fully aware of tho
position and is making preparations for development and
expansion. The new infant schools will be opened in
September 1945 and 15 more Egyptian masters and mistresses
engaged. Tho Committee intends to sot up a hostel in
Cairo to house 50 students from Kuwait, tho initial cost
being £2000 and the running expenses £700 per mensem.
These youths will attend schools and colleges in that city.
The intention is that .:0st of them will take short courses
of one or two years of training as teachers, This will
bring about a rapid i.v.oc^rvement of tho local teachers who
form the majority of tho staff, Foreign teachers will bo
employed chiefly in the secondary schools and upper classes
of the primary schools, These will be gradually replaced
by graduates of the Kuwait Secondary school and those
already at secondary schools abroad when they have taken
a course at a training collogo either abroad or possibly
in Kuwait.

Steps to be taken in Dahrain.
5*. Similar action must be taken in Bahrain, A start has
been made in that nine students v/ere sent to Egypt in tho
summer of 1944, throe of whom are at a secondary school,
three at a teaohers training college and three at a
teohnical school, This number should be increased to at
least 30 this year. If the Government will set up a hostel
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