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In 2024, the Kuwait Times also launched Kuwait Times Archive, dedicated to historic content derived from the bound archives of Kuwait Times. Kuwait Times' discontinued projects include the Friday Times, a free 40-page tabloid. It was the first tabloid in the country, offering local commentary, news, and analysis as well as entertainment, sports ...
Technical secondary schools are organized around industrial, commercial or agricultural themes. Both technical and general schooling are conduits to tertiary education. Coeducation in Kuwait was a contentious issue since the Islamists gained slight power in parliament in 1996.
The population of Kuwait has grown rapidly in recent times, more than doubling between 1985 and 2005. Kuwaitis born in the country now make up about a third of the country's population. Expatriates make up the rest. [13] The school-aged population of both Kuwaitis and non-Kuwaitis represented 24 percent of the total population in 2005.
Kuwait is highly dependent on migrant labour, but their poor living conditions have been noted by human rights groups. [5] From 2022 to 2024, over 1,400 Indian workers died in Kuwait, and the Indian embassy in Kuwait City received 16,423 complaints from March 2021 to December 2023 due to payment delays, harassment, and substandard accommodation.
The number of newspapers published reached the peak in 2009, when there were 14 Arabic dailies, three English dailies and a dozens weekly newspapers in Kuwait. [2] But the numbers decreased since then either on account of the 2008 financial crisis and the increase of digital news sources or by government censorship.
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The Basic Education College is a degree-awarding tertiary institute in Kuwait.It is one of the four colleges operated by the government's The Public Authority for Applied Education and Training and is part of the nation's applied education sector.
On 22 January 2008, the parliament voted 27 to 19, with two abstentions, against the impeachment of Education Minister Nouria al-Subeih. In the lead-up to the vote, MPs Ali Al-Daqbaashi, Musallam Al-Barrak, Saleh Ashour and Hussein Muzyed spoke against the minister while Al-Enezi, Ali Al-Rashid, Mohammed Al-Sager, and Adel Al-Saraawi spoke in her defense.